The Tigre Sentinel
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
A brace, and Ignacio Russo takes the afternoon — 8.57
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ignacio Russo provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market9 Aug 2027
Ignacio Letizia hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tigre can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Ignacio Letizia: 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.” Tigre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tigre
Gonzalo Requena 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Mateo Faure arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mateo Faure has, at Tigre, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Match7 Aug 2027
Ignacio Russo sends Tigre past Sarmiento
It finished 3‑1, and it was Ignacio Russo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tigre.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
Thiago Omar Pérez will join Tigre for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Thiago Omar Pérez has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Tigre have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
The goals keep arriving from Juan Cruz Esquivel’s exile
13 goals in 24 games at Morón — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Tigre updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Sebastián Medina at his very best
Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tigre.
In brief
- Player ratings Jabes Saralegui was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad Bautista Chitarroni signs on for more
- Market Tigre sign Mateo Faure, one for the future