The Banfield Herald
Squad4 Oct 2027
Elías Alderete damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
17 days out for Ignacio Abraham after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Banfield will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Oscar Martinez, 21, steals the show — 7.89
Marked 7.89 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market4 Oct 2027
Santiago Hezze raises the bar for Banfield
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Banfield heard it as anything else.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Enzo Colque signs for Tigre while still at Banfield
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Enzo Colque has agreed terms with Tigre for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Diego Rodríguez stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Rodríguez and Banfield agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Fagúndez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Banfield beat the market to Juan Fernándes Pinto from Almagro
Almagro will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Juan Fernándes Pinto has pre-agreed a move to Banfield, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
Banfield supporters have found a favourite in Oscar Martinez
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Oscar Martinez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Banfield find a way past Aldosivi
- Player ratings One of those days for Juergen Elitím
- Player ratings Santiago López García in the eights