Marked for Adrián Vega
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Gimnasia y Tiro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Adrián Vega
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrián Vega will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gimnasia y Tiro the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Guanini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 100% of the Gimnasia y Tiro 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Gonzalo Soto 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Walter Busse, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Lautaro Montoya is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Franco Sivetti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Franco Sivetti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gimnasia y Tiro the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Dec 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Joaquín Papaleo wants continental football; whether Gimnasia y Tiro can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Walter Busse and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Matías Birge 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobías Barrionuevo and Gimnasia y Tiro agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ivo Chaves may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout21 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 Gimnasia y Tiro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Tiro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Dec 2026
Adrián Vega 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 Gimnasia y Tiro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Manuel Guanini 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ivo Chaves 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rubén Villarreal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Manuel Guanini 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Juan Galetto 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 Juan Galetto is on it.
Market14 Dec 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Franco Sivetti may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gimnasia y Tiro is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market9 Nov 2026
Adrián Vega 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 Gimnasia y Tiro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Nov 2026
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Guanini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Juan Rocca 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 Gimnasia y Tiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fernando Correa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. José Ramos has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnasia y Tiro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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 Gimnasia y Tiro, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Juan Rocca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Manuel Guanini 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Gimnasia y Tiro
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Juan Galetto 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Joaquín Luna after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
0‑2 against Estudiantes, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match29 Aug 2026
Patronato will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Gimnasia y Tiro were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Matías Birge, 37, rolls back the years — 7.98
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
11 combined actions and 6.54. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Guanini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Loan watch31 Aug 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Gimnasia y Tiro, and 0 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Joaquín Luna, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market3 Aug 2026
Forli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Gimnasia y Tiro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
Adrián Vega 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 Gimnasia y Tiro can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivo Chaves and Gimnasia y Tiro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Soto 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Manuel Guanini 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Ivo Chaves
Still no offer on the table, and Ivo Chaves’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.