The Banfield Herald
Squad21 Dec 2026
14 days out for Adrián Balboa 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Banfield are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Sergio López keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Banfield may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The season belongs to Ignacio Abraham
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Banfield have had the benefit of it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Banfield beat the market to Yeison Murillo from Deportivo Riestra
Deportivo Riestra will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yeison Murillo 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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Fluminense tell Banfield: Ryan Francisco is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Santiago López García 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Alan Melognio for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Banfield will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
In brief
- Transfer targets Banfield try to borrow Imanol Enríquez
- Transfer targets Banfield ask about Juan Cruz Martins
- The dugout Diego Rodríguez has become a man the manager trusts