The Argentinos Juniors Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
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 ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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
- Player ratings Off the pace: Iván Morales
- Player ratings A day to forget for Matías Giménez Rojas
- Player ratings Gastón Verón could not find anything