Marked for Leandro Gutiérrez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
Dairon Mosquera 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Recoleta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Gauto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Nelson Sanabria asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Recoleta will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Maximiliano Gauto’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Match9 Aug 2027
Recoleta sink to position 12
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Lucas Zalazar out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Recoleta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Recoleta can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Recoleta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Sosa commits to Recoleta for another 2 years.
Squad9 Aug 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 Recoleta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Marcelo Montiel out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Recoleta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Mar 2027
Sportivo San Lorenzo ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match6 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Recoleta
7 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dairon Mosquera and Recoleta agree another 2 years.
Match6 Mar 2027
Recoleta cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Dairon Mosquera 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 terraces8 Mar 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Andrés Molinas
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Leandro Gutiérrez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.