The Vélez Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
A one-man rearguard from Álvaro Montero
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market6 Sep 2027
Diego Valdés wants more than Vélez are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Mateo Muñoz signs for Belgrano while still at Vélez
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mateo Muñoz has agreed terms with Belgrano for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Emanuel Mammana 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Leandro Milito is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Imanol Machuca 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Emanuel Mammana shuts the door
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match4 Sep 2027
Vélez get the job done against Instituto
A 1‑0 win over Instituto, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Florián Monzón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Gabriel Florentin at his very best
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Sebastián Driussi
- Loan watch Álvaro Busso counts the days