The Estudiantes Chronicle
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Supporters organise against the Estudiantes board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Pressure builds in the Estudiantes boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Santiago Monzón keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estudiantes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Estudiantes
Delfor Minervino 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Melo wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 249% of everything Estudiantes earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Delfor Minervino
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jorge Correa 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Estudiantes count the cost of losing Nicolás Herrera
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Jorge Correa has been promised minutes
- Market The Fernando Duré question follows Estudiantes around
- Squad Fernando Duré wants to know why he earns less