The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Squad10 Jul 2028
56 days out for Gabriel Arias after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newell's Old Boys will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Jul 2028
Alejo Navarro agrees terms with Godoy Cruz
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Newell's Old Boys people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Jul 2028
Nicolás Guirin 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 Newell's Old Boys can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Ignacio Ramírez 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 Newell's Old Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Agustín Auzmendi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Auzmendi commits to Newell's Old Boys for another 2 years.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Newell's Old Boys count the cost of losing Gino Mutti
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Jherson Mosquera gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jherson Mosquera is on it.
Market10 Jul 2028
Racing Club are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Newell's Old Boys will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Tomás Romero
“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
- Market The Lucas Carrizo story refuses to die
- Looking ahead A reunion for Luciano Herrera
- The dugout Santiago Cáseres knocks on the manager's door