The Mitre Post
Market2 Nov 2026
Facundo Gutiérrez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mitre can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Brian Mieres: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mitre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Mitre
Ignacio Pietrobono 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 225% of everything Mitre earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Santiago Rosales 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Gonzalo Córdoba signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gonzalo Córdoba commits to Mitre for another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marcos Machado 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Favio Cabral 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 Mitre, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Mateo Montenegro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Mitre will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market Mitre and Gonzalo Córdoba are talking past each other
- Market The Enzo Avaro talk will not go away
- Squad Questions about José Cabrera on the training pitch