Marked for Francisco Lencinas
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Gabriel Díaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Rivasseau, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Juan Salas 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fernando Moreyra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maximiliano Rueda’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Central Espanol waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Patronato is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jan 2027
Patronato say no — this time
The offer from Alavés for Renzo Reynaga 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Patronato, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Gabriel Díaz 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Patronato
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Salas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Patronato, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francisco Lencinas, and the manager let it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Gabriel Díaz keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Patronato say nothing, which says plenty.