The River Plate Gazette
Market30 Oct 2028
Santiago Ruiz puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at River Plate, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words exchanged at River Plate
Santiago Corbo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Rodríguez 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 dugout30 Oct 2028
When it matters, Agustín Juárez 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.
The dugout30 Oct 2028
Lucas Goberville 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 River Plate, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad30 Oct 2028
Questions about Matías Escobar on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Brian Ferrarés
- Squad Thiago Valverde is out on the grass again
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Rodrigo Hernández at Dewa United