Federico Versaci 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.
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo del Pino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Talleres will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Talleres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market11 Jan 2027
The window shut and Santiago Scian is still in the building
Talleres spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mauro Casoli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Talleres the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Talleres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The deal with Ferro Carril Oeste is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Leonel Gómez 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro César is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
A loan enquiry to Gimnasia La Plata: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Talleres have done the hard part with Gimnasia y Esgrima, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Matías Bazzi 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Talleres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Samaniego is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Talleres have no good answer.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Talleres could ask drops and the wages Mauro Casoli can ask rise.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Bazzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Eugenio Olivera has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Talleres, another week without a signature from Mauro Casoli.
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
In brief
The terracesSupporters make their feelings known about Nicolás Malvacio
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Talleres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Bazzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Malvacio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.