Marked for Máximo Gómez
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
A defender's afternoon for Felipe Bussio
Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market18 Mar 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad18 Mar 2030
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.
Market18 Mar 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings18 Mar 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match16 Mar 2030
Atlanta made Vélez work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Mar 2030
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Squad18 Feb 2030
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vélez may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings18 Feb 2030
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match16 Feb 2030
The wait goes on for Vélez
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Feb 2030
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.
Market18 Feb 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad18 Feb 2030
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match16 Feb 2030
0‑2 to Newell's Old Boys, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad18 Feb 2030
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Market18 Feb 2030
The name of Diego Valdés keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vélez say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market21 Jan 2030
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vélez have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market21 Jan 2030
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Tempers go at Vélez
Tomás Marchiori 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.
Market21 Jan 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market21 Jan 2030
The Diego Valdés story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Diego Valdés signs something — a contract at Vélez or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Leonel Roldán 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 Leonel Roldán trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market24 Dec 2029
Only the photograph left for Yoel Marchi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yoel Marchi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vélez the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Dec 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Tempers go at Vélez
Tomás Marchiori 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.
Market24 Dec 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vélez will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market24 Dec 2029
The name of Kevin Maidana has come up in conversations Vélez were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Loan watch24 Dec 2029
17 appearances at Alianza Lima and the goals keep coming. Vélez are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Upbeat
Market18 Jun 2029
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jun 2029
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vélez have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Jun 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vélez, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jun 2029
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.
Market18 Jun 2029
The phone has started ringing about Ignacio Cardozo again, and this time the name on the line is Real Santander. Vélez are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad18 Jun 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Máximo Gómez and Vélez agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Market11 Dec 2028
Business is business: Leandro Godoy goes
Santos paid $9.7M and Vélez took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market11 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market11 Dec 2028
Vélez say no — this time
The offer from Gimnasia y Esgrima for Máximo Gómez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad11 Dec 2028
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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lisandro Magallán commits to Vélez for another 2 years.
Market11 Dec 2028
Everyone has stopped pretending: Colegiales will make the call about Santiago Hegler this week. Vélez have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Loan watch11 Dec 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Vélez, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Jano Gordon 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 Jano Gordon trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.