The Independiente Herald
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Braian Martínez out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Independiente will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Boca Juniors deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Tomás Parmo reports back to Independiente with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market11 Jan 2027
Santa Fe come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Independiente did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Independiente
Santiago Arias 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Independiente count the cost of losing Simón Navarro
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad11 Jan 2027
11 new faces, and Independiente are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Rodrigo Rey knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rodrigo Rey trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Mateo Pérez Curci
“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 dugout11 Jan 2027
Lautaro Millán 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 Lautaro Millán is on it.
In brief
- Market Santiago Montiel linked with a move away
- Loan watch 5 goals on loan for Ignacio Pussetto
- Loan watch Walter Mazzantti keeps scoring at Newell's Old Boys