Thiago Ponce

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Rosario Central
8 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Thiago Ponce

61 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Rosario Central taken apart

1‑5 to Argentinos Juniors, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Thiago Ponce is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rosario Central is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Thiago Ponce signs for Central Córdoba SdE while still at Rosario Central

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Thiago Ponce has agreed terms with Central Córdoba SdE for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rosario Central

Ángel Di María 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.

Match

6 goals as Rosario Central and Argentinos Juniors go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Rosario Central and Argentinos Juniors, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jaminton Campaz

Marked 8.17 — 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Emanuel Coronel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emanuel Coronel, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

The game went through Franco Ibarra — 6.72

Marked 6.72 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Boardroom

Inquest at Rosario Central

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Rosario Central

0‑1 against Barracas Central, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Gaspar Duarte agrees terms with Brown de Adrogué

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rosario Central people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Juan Cruz Komar says no to San Marcos de Arica

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Juan Cruz Komar had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Rosario Central agree $2.1M for Enzo Vázquez

The clubs have shaken hands with Central Norte; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Thiago Ponce 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 Rosario Central can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Juan Giménez moves on

River Plate pay $1.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Boardroom

Rosario Central go back to the board over Tahiel Peralta

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $866.2K — a club that wants Tahiel Peralta enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Rosario Central walk away from Tahiel Peralta

$710.0K was the most the club would pay and Huracán were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

A falling-out at Rosario Central

Ángel Di María and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

35 Edition

The Rosario Central Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A row about effort at Rosario Central

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Rosario Central

Gaspar Duarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Cruz Komar

“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 dugout

Facundo Mallo 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.

The dugout

The manager makes Alexis Soto a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Rosario Central. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

The Agustín Sández question follows Rosario Central around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Sández’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Loan watch

Franco Frías keeps scoring at Cobresal

6 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

Sebastián Zaracho has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Rosario Central will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Loan watch

3 goals on loan for Giovanni Bogado

7 appearances at Sportivo Luqueno and the goals keep coming. Rosario Central are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief