The River Plate Post
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at River Plate
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at River Plate is running low.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at River Plate
Reinaldo Benítez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Uriel Rodríguez 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager makes Germán Núñez a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at River Plate. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Guido Gamarra asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager plants his flag on Rodrigo Fariña
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Rodrigo Fariña’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Óscar Morel is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Angel Romero is fit again