Marked for Agustín Moreno
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Apr 2027
The match ball belongs to Estiven Pérez, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Agustín Moreno, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 9.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Estiven Pérez. 3‑2 against Liniers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Villa Dálmine training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tomás Ponzo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Villa Dálmine this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Lautaro Candia: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Villa Dálmine have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Lauro Gamba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mario López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Costa to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Something was said to Cristian Broggi and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Lauro Gamba story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lauro Gamba signs something — a contract at Villa Dálmine or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad22 Mar 2027
At 21 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Villa Dálmine have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
129 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. All Boys lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around All Boys people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market28 Dec 2026
All Boys say no — this time
The offer from Cerrito for Ezequiel Ramírez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at All Boys
Iván Zafarana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at All Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Barrientos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market28 Dec 2026
Agustín Moreno has left for Villa Dálmine in a $47.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 178% of the All Boys income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at All Boys, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Pablo Oro keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Villa Dálmine may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A move Agustín Moreno would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Agustín Moreno is living that version at Villa Dálmine, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Lauro Gamba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market28 Dec 2026
The fee is $47.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. All Boys drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportivo Riestra have kept their man, and Villa Dálmine go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Mario López falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateo Solís, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Villa Dálmine know which stage they are at.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Tomás Ponzo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Carrizo
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. All Boys lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Dec 2026
Matías Nouet hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what All Boys can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. All Boys have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market7 Dec 2026
The deal that would have taken Diego Guallama to Lanús has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to All Boys with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Agustín Moreno has agreed terms with Brown de Adrogué for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market7 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Agustín Moreno
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agustín Moreno will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around All Boys the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at All Boys
Gustavo Turraca and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at All Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Barrientos is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Lucas Cano gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.