Francisco Machis

Striker - Güemes
24 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Francisco Machis

105 Edition

The Güemes Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

8 matches without a win for Güemes

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Güemes are no longer polite ones.

Market

Gianfranco Baier 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 The request is on a desk at Güemes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Axel Bordón has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Güemes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Home is on Serhii Kiblytskyi's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Güemes are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

David Veliz 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 Güemes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fernando Godoy 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Santiago Sala

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Sala, and the manager let it.

Match

Gimnasia y Esgrima take the points off Güemes

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Güemes sign Francisco Machis, one for the future

Francisco Machis is 20, and Güemes have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

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The Zulia Chronicle

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andres Moreno damages knee ligaments — 151 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 151 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.

Squad

Luis Alberto Miranda stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Alberto Miranda and Zulia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Luis Alberto Miranda 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 Zulia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Zulia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jose Arango 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.

Market

Carlos Moreno linked with a move away

The name of Carlos Moreno keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zulia say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Oscar Osorio leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Oscar Osorio leaves Zulia the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief