The Sarmiento Herald
Market20 Dec 2027
Manuel García 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 The request is on a desk at Sarmiento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
Sarmiento agree $300.0K for Ignacio Zambudio
The clubs have shaken hands with Belgrano; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Sarmiento
Jonathan Herrera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Alex González gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alex González has just signed for Sarmiento, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Hoyos 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.
Market20 Dec 2027
Sarmiento sign Alex González, one for the future
Alex González is 20, and Sarmiento have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
Manuel García knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Manuel García trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 Dec 2027
The Iván Arboleda talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sarmiento know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Competition arrives for Thiago Santamaría
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Sarmiento have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
In brief
- Market Danilo Monza leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Diego Churín
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Federico Paradela