Marked for Fla
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Dec 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Morón can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Dec 2029
The name of Iván González has come up in conversations Morón were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
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Squad3 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Morón
Julio César Salvá and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Words at Morón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn 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.
Transfer targets3 Dec 2029
Ferro Carril Oeste have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
Iván González has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Morón will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
Fla 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.
Market3 Dec 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Santiago Kubiszyn’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Steady
Market26 Nov 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Morón, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Nov 2029
Juan Castillo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Morón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
Fla: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Morón have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
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Squad26 Nov 2029
Words at Morón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn 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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Tempers go at Morón
Bautista Lippi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market26 Nov 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Morón know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rodrygo Pereira trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Steady
Market12 Nov 2029
Iván González has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Morón they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market12 Nov 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Words at Morón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn 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.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
“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.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Fla 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 Morón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Sebastián Lago knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sebastián Lago trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Oct 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Morón is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
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Squad1 Oct 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Morón this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Morón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Kubiszyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Sebastián Lago
“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.
Market1 Oct 2029
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Juan Castillo has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Morón.
Market1 Oct 2029
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Morón, another week without a signature from Sebastián Pereda.
Market1 Oct 2029
The name of Mauro Schönfeld keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Morón say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Hernán Domínguez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Morón will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Match24 Sep 2029
Morón finish in position 12
43 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
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Squad24 Sep 2029
Words at Morón training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Kubiszyn 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.
Match22 Sep 2029
0‑1 to Central Norte, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad24 Sep 2029
A falling-out at Morón
Fla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Sep 2029
The numbers do not look good at Morón
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
“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.
The dugout24 Sep 2029
Sebastián Lago 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.
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Steady
Squad30 Jul 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Mauro Schönfeld
17 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Morón
Julio César Salvá was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
Belts tighten at Morón
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Santiago Kubiszyn 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.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Morón asked and Tigre said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces30 Jul 2029
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Sebastián Lago has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market30 Jul 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maximiliano Acosta is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market30 Jul 2029
One of our own: Tanque joins the Morón first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tanque is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market30 Jul 2029
One of our own: Fran joins the Morón first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fran is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
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Market
One of our own: Pocho joins the Morón first team
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Match
Morón find a way past Talleres
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Fla
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
The deal with Newell's Old Boys is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad18 Jun 2029
A row about effort at Morón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Kubiszyn was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jun 2029
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.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Morón
Miguel Ángel De Luca was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom18 Jun 2029
91% of the income goes out in wages at Morón
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Federico Di María was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Morón dressing room was either.
The dugout18 Jun 2029
Thiago Lauro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Morón will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Match16 Jun 2029
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Deportivo Riestra will be the happier side with the point.