The Platense Sentinel
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Platense can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad6 Aug 2029
A falling-out at Platense
Damián Saavedra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Joshua Romero out for 24 days
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Joshua Romero, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
The owner puts $184.0K into Platense
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Platense count the cost of losing Matias Caceres
37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Platense are $7.4M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Luciano Tiscornia is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Luciano Tiscornia has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market6 Aug 2029
Nobody at Platense has picked up the phone to Gaston Alvarez
12 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
Damián Saavedra loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Damián Saavedra's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Ignacio Gomez
- Market The shop window has Joshua Romero in it
- Boardroom Platense answer back