The Gimnasia y Esgrima Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Agustín Módica scores twice — 8.48
Two goals and a mark of 8.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Tobías Cervera goes
Tottenham paid $10.0M and Gimnasia y Esgrima took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Lautaro Petruchi
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
A $10.0M sale, and a town that did not want it
Tobías Cervera has gone, the accounts have $10.0M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ulises Sánchez signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ulises Sánchez and Gimnasia y Esgrima agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gimnasia y Esgrima
Matías Vargas 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
Words at Gimnasia y Esgrima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Muñoz 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Gimnasia y Esgrima supporters have found a favourite in Agustín Módica
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Agustín Módica has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match8 Aug 2026
Agustín Módica sends Gimnasia y Esgrima past Defensa y Justicia
It finished 2‑0, and it was Agustín Módica’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gimnasia y Esgrima.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Chucky joins the Gimnasia y Esgrima first team
- Market One of our own: Juan Manuel Campos joins the Gimnasia y Esgrima first team
- Market Pablo Acosta steps up from the Gimnasia y Esgrima academy