60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The fee is $830.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Maipú drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jonathan Rodríguez has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Ignacio Miramón 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Panaro 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.
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Mateo Clemente has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Mariano Ojeda leaves Gimnasia La Plata the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Manuel Panaro 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.
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Position 13 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gimnasia La Plata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Panaro 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.
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnasia La Plata lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Lucas Castro 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Julián Kadijevic is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.