Gino Rizzo

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
29 Dec 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Gino Rizzo

328 Edition

The Rentistas Herald

8 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Juan Moreira damages knee ligaments — 134 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 134 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Rentistas put Federico Varela on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Beto Reyna 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 Rentistas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Gino Rizzo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gino Rizzo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rentistas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rentistas

Matías Budiño 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Rentistas

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

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Matías Budiño's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Lucas Morales stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Morales and Rentistas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Nicolás Mallet gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nicolás Mallet is on it.

In brief

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The Rentistas Herald

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Beto Reyna 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 Rentistas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Gino Rizzo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rentistas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Lautaro Torres 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 Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matías Budiño 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 dugout

Nicolás Mallet gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nicolás Mallet is on it.

The dugout

Guillermo Gandolfo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Guillermo Gandolfo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The clock does Lautaro Dufur’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Rentistas could ask drops and the wages Lautaro Dufur can ask rise.

Squad

The training reports on Nicolás Mallet are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

Boardroom

The Rentistas production line keeps running

66 graduates out of an academy now rated 7 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

319 Edition

The Rentistas Herald

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Facundo Vega damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Federico Varela has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Rentistas can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Lautaro Dufur puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rentistas, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Gino Rizzo is on his way

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

Squad

A falling-out at Rentistas

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

Squad

A row about effort at Rentistas

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

The dugout

Beto Reyna 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.

Market

Rentistas and Matías Budiño are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Matías Budiño is still paying for one afternoon at Rentistas

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

315 Edition

The Rentistas Herald

9 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Rentistas taken apart

0‑4 to Deportivo Maldonado, 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.

Match

Full time on the season at Rentistas

Position 10 on 25 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Market

Brandon Leszczuk 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 Rentistas can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to Rentistas's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rentistas has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Only the photograph left for Gino Rizzo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gino Rizzo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rentistas the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Rentistas

Lautaro Torres was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Rentistas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Budiño 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Rentistas

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.

Player ratings

Facundo Lucero beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

  • The dugout Matías Budiño is still paying for one afternoon at Rentistas
  • Squad 8 new faces, and Rentistas are still learning each other
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
311 Edition

The Rentistas Herald

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Hassan Sani Mohamed agrees terms with Plaza Colonia

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

Market

Brandon Leszczuk asks to leave Rentistas

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Rentistas

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

Market

Gino Rizzo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rentistas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

An offer of $53.0K for Alejo Macelli

Rentistas have gone to Nacional with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Matías Budiño 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.

Squad

Facundo Lucero signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Lucero commits to Rentistas for another 3 years.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ignacio Galván

Rentistas asked and Racing Club said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Leonardo Sequeira 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.

In brief