Alejandro Ramírez

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Barracas Central U20
15 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Alejandro Ramírez

127 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Barracas Central turn down Universitario for Santiago Villalba

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

Market

Terms done: Manuel Tasso is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and River Plate waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Barracas Central is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Barracas Central refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 53 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Iván Tapia is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Barracas Central will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The dugout

Elías Pereyra frozen out at Barracas Central

This is not rotation. Elías Pereyra has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Barracas Central is pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Barracas Central

Manuel Duarte and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Barracas Central bid $140.0K for Thiago Cattanese

The offer went to Sacachispas this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Barracas Central rebuffed over Léo Linck

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Botafogo have kept their man, and Barracas Central go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Valentino Gandín attracts admirers

The name of Valentino Gandín has come up in conversations Barracas Central were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

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123 Edition

The Barracas Central Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Barracas Central refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 53 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Transfer targets

$170.0K settles it between the clubs for Leandro Peña Biafore

Ferro Carril Oeste have accepted the money. What Barracas Central do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Alejandro Chiavetto 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 Barracas Central can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Santiago Villalba signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Villalba and Barracas Central agree another 3 years.

Market

Sportivo Italiano watching Cristian Jiménez Osuna

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

Squad

Manuel Duarte 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Barracas Central

Esteban Rolón 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

Alejandro Ramírez out for 63 days

The medical room confirms 63 days on the sidelines for Alejandro Ramírez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

No place for Iván Guaraz in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Iván Guaraz has his answer from Barracas Central; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief