The Estudiantes Chronicle
Market31 Jan 2028
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.
Match31 Jan 2028
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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
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 watch31 Jan 2028
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
- Squad The manager makes an example of Esteban Ojeda
- Market The Fernando Duré story refuses to die
- Squad Lucas Silva knocks on the manager's door
- Market Ian Vera goes looking for football