The Racing Courier
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Racing
Pablo Chavarría and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alejandro Rébola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Pablo Chavarría is still paying for one afternoon at Racing
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Martín Albarracín
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Matías Machado knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Matías Machado trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Jan 2027
Abel Bustos linked with a move away
The name of Abel Bustos keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Racing say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Matías Sánchez
- Squad Questions about Ricardo Centurión on the training pitch
- Squad Benjamín Rosales is fit again