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Marked for Rulo

210 Edition

The Almagro Chronicle

5 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces5 Aug 2030

Anger at Almagro spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom5 Aug 2030

Franco Ponce has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Almagro can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Player ratings5 Aug 2030

Martín Moretti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market5 Aug 2030

Sam Ekdal puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Almagro, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets5 Aug 2030

Facundo Pons turns down Almagro

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: San Martín keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad5 Aug 2030

A falling-out at Almagro

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

Match3 Aug 2030

Ferro Carril Oeste take the points off Almagro

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom5 Aug 2030

Wages swallow 136% of the Almagro income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout5 Aug 2030

Franco Monla 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.

In brief

  • Squad Sam Ekdal is the division's best young player this month
  • Squad Rulo stays put
  • The dugout Franco Ponce faces the questions
Back issues
184 Edition

The Almagro Chronicle

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match2 Feb 2030

Almagro taken apart

0‑5 to Sarmiento, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market4 Feb 2030

Roberto Lapadula 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 Almagro can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom4 Feb 2030

5 academy graduates step up at Almagro

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad4 Feb 2030

Gino Barbieri 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.

Squad4 Feb 2030

Gaston Olivera stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gaston Olivera and Almagro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad4 Feb 2030

Words exchanged at Almagro

Gaston Olivera 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.

The dugout4 Feb 2030

Gino Barbieri 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.

Market4 Feb 2030

Rulo steps up from the Almagro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rulo 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.

Market4 Feb 2030

Benicio Arias steps up from the Almagro academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benicio Arias 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 One of our own: Fernando Castillo joins the Almagro first team
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Almagro dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout The view from the dugout