The Belgrano Gazette
Market2 Feb 2032
Only the photograph left for Lautaro Pastrán
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lautaro Pastrán will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Belgrano the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom2 Feb 2032
Belgrano tie Maximiliano Medina down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Tempers go at Belgrano
Francisco González Metilli 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.
Boardroom2 Feb 2032
Graduation day at Belgrano
12 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad2 Feb 2032
Alexis Maldonado 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.
Market2 Feb 2032
Caco steps up from the Belgrano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Caco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Bautista Godoy steps up from the Belgrano academy
- Market Liam Gutiérrez steps up from the Belgrano academy
- Squad Tiago Cravero gets it from the manager
- Squad When it matters, Ramiro Hernandes plays