Marked for Daniel Aguirre
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Aguirre
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad1 Jan 2029
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Estudiantes will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market1 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Estudiantes is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tomás González 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicolás Valdemarín commits to Estudiantes for another 4 years.
Market1 Jan 2029
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Dec 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Aguirre
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom18 Dec 2028
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Boardroom18 Dec 2028
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
Squad18 Dec 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Aguirre
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Dec 2028
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Estudiantes will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market18 Dec 2028
Atlanta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Estudiantes did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market18 Dec 2028
The phone has started ringing about Mateo Falcione again, and this time the name on the line is Colegiales. Estudiantes are listening politely and promising nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Dec 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Aguirre
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estudiantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market11 Dec 2028
The offer from Chacarita Juniors for Mauro Molina was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javier Ferreira 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Franco Cavalieri and Estudiantes agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“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.
Market11 Dec 2028
The Siro Rosané story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Siro Rosané signs something — a contract at Estudiantes or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.