The Sarmiento Herald
Squad18 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Luca Cura
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sarmiento lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market18 Oct 2027
Cristian Zabala puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Sarmiento, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
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Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Sarmiento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Martínez 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Sarmiento
Carlos Villalba 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Lucas Girotti has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sarmiento will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market18 Oct 2027
The Yair Arismendi talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sarmiento know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Francisco Razzeto 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 Francisco Razzeto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Oct 2027
Sarmiento put Brandon Márquez up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Brandon Márquez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Cristian Zabala
- Squad David Véliz is not doing himself any favours