The San Miguel Gazette
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
It is over: San Miguel are relegated
The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.
Squad8 Jan 2029
25 days out for Joaquín Russo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Miguel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
San Miguel counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at San Miguel now.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Tempers go at San Miguel
Nazareno Mercado 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.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
The manager makes an example of Tomás Jerez
“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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
San Miguel lose Maximiliano Gutiérrez
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Bruno Nasta knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bruno Nasta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market8 Jan 2029
The Bruno Nasta question follows San Miguel around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Bruno Nasta’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Rodrigo Dubó has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Miguel 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
- The dugout A door opens for Matías Benítez
- Squad Bruno Nasta can feel the drop
- Market Colo leaves for nothing