Danilo Borges

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
20 May 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Danilo Borges

124 Edition

The Estudiantes Chronicle

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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 targets

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

Market

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

Back issues
117 Edition

The Estudiantes Chronicle

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Juan Román Gimenez has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Darío Rostagno has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Estudiantes can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Estudiantes

Facundo Ardiles 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.

Squad

Segundo Fernández 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.

Loan watch

Tomás Blanco keeps scoring at Sampaio Corrêa

31 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

When it matters, Juan Román Gimenez 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Danilo Borges

“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.

Market

Brian Farioli linked with a move away

The name of Brian Farioli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Estudiantes say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Gonzalo Luján asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

104 Edition

The Estudiantes Chronicle

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bautista Degregorio is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Estudiantes is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 1 signed and 8 gone

That is the business done at Estudiantes until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Thiago Sabella will not be coming to Estudiantes

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Banfield is saying, and nobody at Estudiantes is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Brian Farioli 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 Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Leonel Szalich

Estudiantes asked and Ferro Carril Oeste said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

Bautista Degregorio was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Darío Rostagno

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Ezequiel Almirón

7.82, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Estudiantes had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Danilo Borges

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Estudiantes were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

In brief