The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette
Market30 Jul 2029
Only the photograph left for José Florentín
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. José Florentín will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Independiente Rivadavia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
Emiliano Valenzuela keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente Rivadavia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Independiente Rivadavia count the cost of losing Iván Villalba
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
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Squad30 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Independiente Rivadavia
Matías Fernández and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market30 Jul 2029
Lucas Morales is a Independiente Rivadavia player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Deadline beats Independiente Rivadavia to Gonzalo Lencina
The clock did what Platense would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Alejo Osella 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Lucas Morales stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Morales and Independiente Rivadavia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout Valentín Gradín gets it from the manager
- The dugout Iván Valdez has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The Matías Fernández question follows Independiente Rivadavia around