The River Plate Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Bohemians 1905 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and River Plate did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at River Plate
Carlos Rodríguez 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and River Plate are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market10 Aug 2026
River Plate sign Alvaro Silva, one for the future
Alvaro Silva is 14, and River Plate have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 Aug 2026
River Plate buy the years ahead of Diego Morales
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Aug 2026
River Plate buy the years ahead of Ignacio Gomez
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Santiago Romero dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mathías Rodríguez
“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.
Match8 Aug 2026
River Plate and Liverpool Montevideo cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Liverpool Montevideo came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
In brief
- Player ratings Diego García runs at them all day
- Player ratings The referee tires of Mauro Estol