Rulo

Left Forward - Free Agent
2 Apr 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Rulo

416 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

17 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Lencina

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

David Laudano asks to leave River Plate

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Only the photograph left for Francisco Vidal

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francisco Vidal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around River Plate the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Celías Ingenthron in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at River Plate this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

River Plate turn down Ferro Carril Oeste for Rulo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Matías Galarza 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.

Market

Aldosivi watching Carlos Vidal

The interest is real enough to have reached print. River Plate have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Leonel Jaime signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leonel Jaime commits to River Plate for another 5 years.

Squad

When it matters, Santiago Lencina 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.

In brief

Back issues
411 Edition

The River Plate Sentinel

12 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jonás Miszczuk takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

Cup progress for River Plate

A 6‑0 win over Patronato, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Independiente Rivadavia 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.

Market

Rulo 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.

Market

Francisco Vidal has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around River Plate they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at River Plate

Celías Ingenthron 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.

Match

6 goals as River Plate and Patronato go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between River Plate and Patronato, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Words at River Plate training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Galarza 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jonás Miszczuk

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief