The Banfield Herald
Squad8 Feb 2027
Santiago Esquivel breaks a bone — 18 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 37 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Lautaro Gómez says Banfield went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Bruno Sepúlveda 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Tomás Adoryan
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Banfield
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Favio Álvarez 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Banfield promote Gael Silva from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gael Silva 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Sergio De Luca joins the Banfield first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio De Luca 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 Juan Manuel Escobar steps up from the Banfield academy
- Market One of our own: Iván Peralta joins the Banfield first team
- Match Sarmiento take the points off Banfield