The Rentistas Herald
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Juan Ignacio Duma, 34, rolls back the years — 8.04
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market9 Aug 2027
Pablo Suárez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rentistas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market9 Aug 2027
Austria Salzburg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rentistas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Pablo Ceppelini signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Ceppelini commits to Rentistas for another 2 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Rentistas
Facundo Rodríguez 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Rentistas come up short against Basanez
Basanez left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match7 Aug 2027
7 goals as Rentistas and Basanez go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Rentistas and Basanez, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Rentistas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrés Madruga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Gimnasia La Plata tell Rentistas: Alejandro Almaraz is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Santiago Martínez
- The dugout Gonzalo Barreto left out for the big one
- Squad Manuel Gonzalez out for 21 days