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346 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

14 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match9 Mar 2033

San Martín out of the cup

San Telmo ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match12 Mar 2033

No end in sight to San Martín's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at San Martín has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad14 Mar 2033

Italo Espinoza makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Player ratings14 Mar 2033

Both jobs done by Alfredo Blancq-Cazaux — 6.47

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.47, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Match12 Mar 2033

No time for Madryn to settle

The goal that put Madryn ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when San Martín equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Match12 Mar 2033

San Martín and Madryn take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout14 Mar 2033

The manager makes an example of Felipe Suazo

“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.

The dugout14 Mar 2033

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings14 Mar 2033

Roberto Marino runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The San Martín Sentinel

24 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Jan 2033

San Martín lose Germán Guiffrey

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout24 Jan 2033

No hiding place for Leonel Ramírez

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Ramírez, and the manager let it.

Squad24 Jan 2033

Raúl Ríos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Raúl Ríos and San Martín agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout24 Jan 2033

Guillermo Rodríguez gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Guillermo Rodríguez is on it.

The dugout24 Jan 2033

Germán Guiffrey knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at San Martín, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market24 Jan 2033

The Italo Espinoza question follows San Martín around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Italo Espinoza’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market24 Jan 2033

San Martín put Gabriel Jimenez up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gabriel Jimenez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market24 Jan 2033

Ivan Castillo runs his contract down

5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs San Martín money.

Squad24 Jan 2033

Gabriel Jimenez is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief

333 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

13 Dec 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Dec 2032

Ivan Castillo asks to leave San Martín

“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.

Transfer targets13 Dec 2032

Gael Silva turns down San Martín

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Racing Club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad13 Dec 2032

A falling-out at San Martín

Alfredo Blancq-Cazaux and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets13 Dec 2032

Door shut on Valentino Huertas

San Martín asked and Morón 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 dugout13 Dec 2032

Germán Guiffrey 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.

Transfer targets13 Dec 2032

San Martín try to borrow Mario Lucero

Banfield 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 dugout13 Dec 2032

Mauro García has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at San Martín 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.

Market13 Dec 2032

Felipe Rivarola linked with a move away

The name of Felipe Rivarola keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Martín say nothing, which says plenty.

Market13 Dec 2032

The clock does Ramiro Contreras’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee San Martín could ask drops and the wages Ramiro Contreras can ask rise.

In brief

328 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

8 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Nov 2032

Bestia is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. San Martín know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad8 Nov 2032

Tempers go at San Martín

Leonel Ramírez 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.

Boardroom8 Nov 2032

$231.5K of the owner's money at San Martín

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Market8 Nov 2032

San Martín and Juan Rugeri are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout8 Nov 2032

When it matters, Mauro García plays

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.

Market8 Nov 2032

Felipe Rivarola linked with a move away

The name of Felipe Rivarola keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Martín say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout8 Nov 2032

Ramiro Contreras knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at San Martín, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market8 Nov 2032

Ivan Castillo placed on the list

San Martín have made Ivan Castillo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market8 Nov 2032

The clock does Lucas Sampaio’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee San Martín could ask drops and the wages Lucas Sampaio can ask rise.

In brief

318 Edition

The San Martín Sentinel

30 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Aug 2032

San Martín refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 52 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad30 Aug 2032

A fracture rules Beto out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Martín will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom30 Aug 2032

San Martín cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout30 Aug 2032

Leonel Ramírez 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.

Market30 Aug 2032

Laureano Rodríguez linked with a move away

The name of Laureano Rodríguez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Martín say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout30 Aug 2032

Miguel Palomino has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Miguel Palomino has written the date down.

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