Valentín Catalán

Goalkeeper - Argentinos Juniors U20
16 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Valentín Catalán

55 Edition

The Argentinos Juniors Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Matías Giménez Rojas says Argentinos Juniors went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Santiago Diez 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 The request is on a desk at Argentinos Juniors, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Lucas Ambrogio is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Argentinos Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Valentín Catalán has agreed to leave Argentinos Juniors for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Argentinos Juniors

Nicolás Oroz 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Argentinos Juniors

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words at Argentinos Juniors training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Gho 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Erik Godoy

“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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Maximiliano Romero’s exile

13 goals in 23 games at Colo-Colo — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Argentinos Juniors updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief