The Racing Club Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Monges
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing Club lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Valentín Carboni
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ajax Cape Town come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing Club did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Alejo Clementi Cretton signs for Aldosivi while still at Racing Club
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alejo Clementi Cretton has agreed terms with Aldosivi for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alfonso Espino 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 Racing Club this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alejo Clementi Cretton is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing Club is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matías Zaracho signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matías Zaracho and Racing Club agree another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Yenisey join the queue for Francisco Fraga
Add another name to the list: Yenisey have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Francisco Fraga. The answer from Racing Club has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Racing Club training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomás Conechny 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.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Facundo Cambeses's contract
- The dugout The form table has caught Lautaro Díaz
- The dugout The view from the dugout