The Platense Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Platense turn down Genoa for Celías Ingenthron
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ignacio Vázquez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Vázquez commits to Platense for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nico López 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 Platense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ignacio Vázquez 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Guido Mainero
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gabriel Martínez joins the Platense first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Martínez 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
Platense promote Nicolás Russo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicolás Russo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Leonardo Ramírez steps up from the Platense academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Ramírez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Platense
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolás Marino: “We have to be better”
- Squad Nicolás Ortiz falls out with a teammate over standards
- Match Platense draw a blank against Newell's Old Boys