Marked for Dylan Fernández
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces21 Aug 2028
Anger at San Telmo spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match19 Aug 2028
The wait goes on for San Telmo
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market21 Aug 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at San Telmo, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
This is not rotation. Lucas Baldunciel has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Telmo is pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for San Telmo is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Match19 Aug 2028
A bad afternoon for San Telmo against Morón
1‑2 to Morón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Franco Aguirre ran the middle of the pitch — 6.64
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.64, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Maximiliano Reyes 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.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fabián Henríquez, and the manager let it.
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Steady
The dugout27 Mar 2028
This is not rotation. Renzo Uriburu has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Telmo is pretending otherwise.
Squad27 Mar 2028
A row about effort at San Telmo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Máximo Munarriz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. San Telmo told Tobías Schilman something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at San Telmo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market27 Mar 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. San Telmo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for San Telmo
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at San Telmo
Elías Brítez 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Baldunciel, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at San Telmo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Renzo Uriburu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Chacarita Juniors leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market12 Apr 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at San Telmo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Miguel Núñez was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the San Telmo dressing room was either.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
The terraces29 Mar 2027
The mood at San Telmo has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Elías Brítez 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 San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at San Telmo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dylan Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Franco Aguirre
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Román González has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Telmo 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at San Telmo, another week without a signature from Dylan Fernández.