Marked for Nicolás Canteros
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Apr 2027
23 matches without a win for Talleres
The run now stands at 23, and the questions being asked around Talleres are no longer polite ones.
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Apr 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Vélez
“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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Talleres lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Talleres's wait for a win
22 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Talleres has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Talleres
Position 18 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Talleres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 190% of everything Talleres earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maximiliano Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Match17 Apr 2027
Agropecuario Argentino left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A mark of 5.52 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
5.71 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Talleres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Nicolás Malvacio 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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
119 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Dec 2026
111 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Talleres can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Abel Masuero 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicolás Canteros and Talleres agree another 4 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Talleres will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
“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 Talleres, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
149 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Abel Masuero 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Talleres
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Talleres are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Abel Masuero 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chaco For Ever left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hernán Taborda, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.57 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.