Facundo Silva

Left Forward - San Telmo U18
22 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Facundo Silva

124 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the San Telmo boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

A fracture rules Facundo Silva out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Telmo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at San Telmo

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

Market

Business is business: Matías Salerno goes

Godoy Cruz paid $230.0K and San Telmo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Ramiro Montoya moves on

Belgrano pay $89.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

The dugout

Rodrigo Aranguiz is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Transfer targets

San Telmo ask about Joel Abregu

A loan enquiry to Temperley: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Elías Ortíz is in the works

San Telmo have made the call to Los Andes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Javier Iritier has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at San Telmo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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123 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the San Telmo board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

Every point is an argument now for San Telmo

Position 17 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Cristian Romano has until the next board meeting

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

Market

Matías Salerno 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 San Telmo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at San Telmo

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

A fracture rules Facundo Silva out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Telmo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Atlético Tucumán come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and San Telmo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eyes on Matías Salerno again

The phone has started ringing about Matías Salerno again, and this time the name on the line is Godoy Cruz. San Telmo are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

Leandro Nieto frozen out at San Telmo

This is not rotation. Leandro Nieto has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Telmo is pretending otherwise.

In brief

122 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

33 days out for Facundo Silva after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Telmo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Ramiro Montoya frozen out at San Telmo

This is not rotation. Ramiro Montoya has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Telmo is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Máximo Munarriz 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Leonel Pollacchi

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. San Telmo told Leonel Pollacchi something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Matias Isla stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matias Isla and San Telmo agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

When it matters, Franco Aguirre 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 has not finished forgetting Maximiliano Ferreyra's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market

Lucas Baldunciel linked with a move away

The name of Lucas Baldunciel keeps appearing in other people's back pages. San Telmo say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Ramiro Montoya runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs San Telmo money.

In brief

121 Edition

The San Telmo Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Facundo Silva breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ramiro Montoya

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ramiro Montoya will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Telmo the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Matías Salerno frozen out at San Telmo

This is not rotation. Matías Salerno has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Telmo is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Máximo Munarriz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Máximo Munarriz and San Telmo agree another 5 years.

Squad

Franco Aguirre 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 San Telmo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at San Telmo

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Máximo Munarriz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Máximo Munarriz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Máximo Munarriz, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 86% of the San Telmo 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 dugout

Matías Ledesma has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at San Telmo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief