Marked for Valentín Dutruel
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market27 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Racing
Tomás Kummer 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.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
130% of the income goes out in wages at Racing
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad27 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Valentín Dutruel and Racing agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Lucas Piedrabuena, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market27 Dec 2027
Racing have made Facundo Taborda available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Nov 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Racing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Racing
Ricardo Centurión 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Racing counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Racing now.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
Lautaro Ávila 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 Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages eat 125% of everything Racing earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market1 Nov 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Racing, another week without a signature from Leonel Monti.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 7 appearances behind him, and Racing have to plan for both answers.
Market1 Nov 2027
Racing have let the market know Facundo Taborda can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.