The Wanderers Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Luciano Cosentino runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Wanderers
José Alberti 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Facundo Labandeira 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
José Alberti gets it from the manager
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Luciano Cosentino's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
A long bet from Wanderers on Marcelo Jimenez
He is 16, and nobody at Wanderers signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Wanderers sign Rafael Diaz, one for the future
Rafael Diaz is 16, and Wanderers 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Leandro Zazpe stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.15 on the card, and the Wanderers support went home talking about one name.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Freitas 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.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Wanderers?
- Squad A wage question at Wanderers
- Player ratings José Alberti spends the afternoon fouling