The Banfield Herald
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Alexander Machado says Banfield went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market7 Jun 2027
Ramiro Alderete asks to leave Banfield
“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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Estudiantes join the queue for Santiago Esquivel
Add another name to the list: Estudiantes have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Santiago Esquivel. The answer from Banfield has not changed — yet.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Favio Álvarez
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Favio Álvarez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Banfield have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Diego Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Banfield will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Tomás Adoryan 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tomás Adoryan moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Banfield than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
In brief
- Boardroom Open for business: Banfield enter the window
- The dugout The manager makes Miguel Ángel Torrén a promise
- Market Banfield put Teo Cohen up for sale