Facundo Jainikoski

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Espanyol
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Facundo Jainikoski

2 Edition

The Argentinos Juniors Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tomás Molina breaks a bone — 107 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Alan Lescano signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alan Lescano commits to Argentinos Juniors for another 4 years.

Squad

Diego Rodríguez 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 Argentinos Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Facundo Jainikoski goes

Espanyol paid $880.0K and Argentinos Juniors took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

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.

Match

Iván Morales’s goal not enough for Argentinos Juniors

Iván Morales scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Estudiantes, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Alan Lescano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Argentinos Juniors dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

No place for Facundo Barboza in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Facundo Barboza has his answer from Argentinos Juniors; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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2 Edition

The Espanyol Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Leandro Cabrera damages knee ligaments — 158 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 158 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Javi Puado signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Javi Puado commits to Espanyol for another 4 years.

Squad

Marko Dmitrović 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 Espanyol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Leandro Cabrera raises the bar for Espanyol

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Espanyol heard it as anything else.

Market

Giugliano expected to open talks for Omar Sadik

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Espanyol will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Tyrhys Dolan 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.

In brief