Marked for Facundo Jainikoski
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicolás Oroz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Hernán López Muñoz 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Carrizo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Argentinos Juniors told Gabriel Florentin something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Joaquín Gho 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tomás Molina’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Argentinos Juniors. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
Leandro Finochietto’s loan is measured in nothing happening
4 clean sheets from 10 appearances at Güemes. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Back issues
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer from Black Aces for Gonzalo Siri was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hernán López Muñoz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Facundo Jainikoski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Federico Mancuello has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Argentinos Juniors prefer.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matías Giménez Rojas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Out, 1‑2 to Madryn, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Gastón Verón had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hernán López Muñoz 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 55 days on the sidelines for Emiliano Viveros, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Facundo Jainikoski 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Gabriel Florentin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Lescano and Argentinos Juniors agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alan Lescano 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Matías Pellegrini has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Argentinos Juniors have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Facundo Jainikoski 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Raúl Suárez could afford to be generous.