The Estudiantes Chronicle
Market11 Dec 2028
Danilo Borges asks to leave Estudiantes
“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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Estudiantes
Facundo Ardiles 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Federico Sena 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.
Transfer targets11 Dec 2028
Estudiantes rebuffed over Nahuel Curcio
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colón have kept their man, and Estudiantes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets11 Dec 2028
A loan move for Thiago Sabella is in the works
Estudiantes have made the call to Banfield. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets11 Dec 2028
Estudiantes try to borrow Gerardo Díaz
San Martín SJ have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
When it matters, Federico Sena 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 dugout11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Alejandro Ibáñez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market11 Dec 2028
The Facundo Castelli question follows Estudiantes around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Facundo Castelli’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Gonzalo Luján knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Darío Rostagno has been promised minutes
- Squad The training reports on Pedro Russo are not good