Marked for Thiago Santi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market13 Dec 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.
Market13 Dec 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luciano Recalde wants continental football; whether Quilmes can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Ramiro Luna 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 Quilmes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Gonzalo Marinelli falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market13 Dec 2027
The name of Joaquín Postigo has come up in conversations Quilmes were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Axel Batista knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Quilmes, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Quilmes say no — this time
The offer from Deportivo La Coruña for Mirko Juárez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Axel Batista 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Quilmes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Quilmes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro Luna 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martín Vallejos, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market28 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joaquín Canadell will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Quilmes the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ramiro Luna 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Luciano Recalde falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 182% of everything Quilmes 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Nov 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 Quilmes can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Axel Batista 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 Quilmes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ramiro Luna falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.