The Wanderers Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
Agustín Buffa 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 Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Máximo Machado gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Máximo Machado has just signed for Wanderers, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Alberti 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Máximo Machado signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Máximo Machado and Wanderers agree another 4 years.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
José Alberti knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wanderers, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
When it matters, Nicolás Queiroz plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Facundo Guichón a promise
- Market Máximo Machado joins Wanderers on a free
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Gonzalo Freitas