Enzo Colque

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Process

Marked for Enzo Colque

62 Edition

The Banfield Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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 terraces

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

Back issues
48 Edition

The Banfield Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Elías Alderete damages knee ligaments — 141 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 141 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.

Squad

Enzo Colque breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Alexander Machado: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Banfield have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Banfield say no — this time

The offer from Real Pilar for Renzo Malanca was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Eyes on Juan Manuel Cruz again

The phone has started ringing about Juan Manuel Cruz again, and this time the name on the line is Alcorcón. Banfield are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Santiago Hezze 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tomás Adoryan 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.

The dugout

Juan Manuel Cruz 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 Juan Manuel Cruz trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Favio Álvarez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Banfield will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

47 Edition

The Banfield Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Rodríguez

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

28 days out for Enzo Colque 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.

Market

Thomas Rodríguez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Banfield can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Platense come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Banfield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Banfield sign Mauricio Jiménez for $330.0K

The paperwork is done: Mauricio Jiménez joins from Boca Juniors in a deal worth $330.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Tempers go at Banfield

Santiago Hezze 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.

Squad

Erick Cabaco 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.

Transfer targets

Banfield rebuffed over Franco Saavedra

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia y Esgrima have kept their man, and Banfield go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Tomás Adoryan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

46 Edition

The Banfield Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Rodríguez

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Banfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Banfield out of the cup

Atlético Tucumán ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Enzo Colque breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Atletico Bucaramanga come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Banfield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Mario Sandoval 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 Banfield, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Banfield sign Juan Yangali for $1.0M

The paperwork is done: Juan Yangali joins from San Telmo in a deal worth $1.0M. Now comes the harder part.

Match

4 matches without a win for Banfield

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Banfield are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Banfield

Santiago Hezze 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Banfield

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erick Cabaco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief