Esteban Ojeda

Goalkeeper - Estudiantes
4 Dec 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Esteban Ojeda

79 Edition

The Estudiantes Chronicle

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Fernando Duré 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Estudiantes up to position 3

54 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes

Rodrigo Melo 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

Delfor Minervino 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 105% of everything Estudiantes 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.

Loan watch

Ian Vera counts the days

“I watch every Estudiantes game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Slaven Belupo runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

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The Estudiantes Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Melo

67 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Darío Rostagno 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 The request is on a desk at Estudiantes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Esteban Ojeda keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estudiantes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Rodrigo Melo 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 Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Delfor Minervino 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Estudiantes against Defensores

0‑2 to Defensores, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief