The River Plate Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
The knee: Rodrigo Rodríguez out for 45 days
45 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. River Plate lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match8 Aug 2026
River Plate taken apart
0‑3 to Penarol, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
River Plate to lose Nicolás dos Santos for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Nicolás dos Santos has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Pereira 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alejandro García 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 River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ignacio Pereira
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Federico Rossi steps up from the River Plate academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Federico Rossi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Carlos Fernandez joins the River Plate first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Fernandez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thiago Jimenez joins the River Plate first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thiago Jimenez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Marcelo Pereira steps up from the River Plate academy
- Squad Ignacio Pereira is a square peg at River Plate
- Boardroom Nobody left the River Plate dressing room in a hurry