The Barracas Central Gazette
Market16 Jul 2029
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 targets16 Jul 2029
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 dugout16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
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 targets16 Jul 2029
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 dugout16 Jul 2029
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 dugout16 Jul 2029
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
- Squad No place for Facundo Feo in the new shape
- Market The Manuel Duarte question follows Barracas Central around
- Looking ahead Gastón Campi faces his old club