Marked for Jerónimo Romeo
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Oct 2026
Instituto go through and Boca Juniors go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Jerónimo Romeo out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Oct 2026
6 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boca Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giaco Garombo and Boca Juniors agree another 4 years.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Boca Juniors training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giaco Garombo 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Giaco Garombo
“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.
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Crisis
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Jerónimo Romeo out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boca Juniors will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Oct 2026
Boca Juniors are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 23 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match23 Oct 2026
1‑2 against Deportivo La Guaira. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Federico Carrizo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Boca Juniors have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Boca Juniors
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Boca Juniors are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Agustín Marchesín 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Camilo Salamanca will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boca Juniors the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lionel Leguizamón and Boca Juniors agree another 4 years.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
37 days out for Jerónimo Romeo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Boca Juniors will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Boca Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match17 Oct 2026
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Boca Juniors is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Agustín Marchesín 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lautaro Blanco 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Matías Fuentes pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
44 days out for Jerónimo Romeo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Boca Juniors will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 Oct 2026
16 matches without defeat, and then Lanús. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Marcelo Meli
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcelo Meli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boca Juniors the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boca Juniors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Lanús, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Santiago Ascacíbar 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.
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Upbeat
Match2 Oct 2026
3‑0. Nights like this are why clubs spend decades trying to qualify for this competition, and they arrive perhaps twice in that time. Everybody who was in the ground will describe it badly for years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
52 days out for Jerónimo Romeo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Boca Juniors will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match3 Oct 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Boca Juniors may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Enner Valencia yet — 8.69
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.69 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Tomás Aranda at 19 — 8.01
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Tomás Aranda did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Javier García
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Javier García will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Boca Juniors the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Agustín Marchesín and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
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Upbeat
Match2 Sep 2026
Gimnasia y Esgrima are out and Boca Juniors go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Miguel Ventos, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market7 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Boca Juniors did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Boca Juniors did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Agustín Marchesín and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 21 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.