Marked for David Mulee
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom25 Sep 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Almagro
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Almagro is running low.
Squad25 Sep 2028
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad25 Sep 2028
A falling-out at Almagro
Thiago López and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match23 Sep 2028
Dock Sud left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad25 Sep 2028
7 new faces, and Almagro are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch25 Sep 2028
“I watch every Almagro game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FC Argeș runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Almagro know it.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
A promise honoured at Almagro
Something was said to Facundo Rodríguez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Crisis
Market11 Sep 2028
David Mulee hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Almagro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Emiliano González 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Ignacio Morales 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“I want to play”: Antony Silva speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
Cadu gets it from the manager
“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.
Looking ahead11 Sep 2028
Agropecuario Argentino next, and one man in the Almagro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market11 Sep 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Almagro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces11 Sep 2028
Supporters make their feelings known about Emiliano González
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Almagro would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Squad11 Sep 2028
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Match5 Aug 2028
10 matches without a win for Almagro
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Almagro are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Aug 2028
David Mulee hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Almagro can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Thiago López 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.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Aug 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.
Market7 Aug 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
The afternoon belonged to Enzo Silcan
A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Words at Almagro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Morales 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Almagro will not keep him by pretending otherwise.