Facundo Feo

Central Defender - Free Agent
19 Jan 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Facundo Feo

155 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Iván Guaraz agrees terms with Instituto

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Barracas Central people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Barracas Central agree $57.0K for Adrián Fernández

The clubs have shaken hands with Independiente; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

The dugout

Iván Guaraz says Barracas Central 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Barracas Central

Rodrigo Bogarín 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

Kevin Jappert 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.

Squad

Barracas Central lose Santino Rodríguez

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Mauro Molina is in the works

Barracas Central have made the call to Deportivo Municipal. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Santiago Villalba 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 Barracas Central, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alex Soria

“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.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

$930.0K settles it between the clubs for Juan Cruz Giacone

Talleres have accepted the money. What Barracas Central do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Alex Soria 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 Barracas Central can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Iván Tapia 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 Barracas Central this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Facundo Feo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Facundo Feo has just signed for Barracas Central, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

No deal for Lucas Román at that price

Barracas Central offered $33.0K; Independiente said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Kevin Jappert 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.

Squad

Cristhian Mezu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristhian Mezu and Barracas Central agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Instituto are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Barracas Central will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

The dugout

No hiding place for Estanislao Jara

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Estanislao Jara, and the manager let it.

In brief