The Temperley Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Burgos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Temperley did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Alejandro Melo goes
AEL Larisa paid $440.0K and Temperley took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Hauche 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 Temperley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lautaro Torres attracts admirers
The name of Lautaro Torres has come up in conversations Temperley were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Temperley promote Valentín Rey from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentín Rey has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Temperley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Esparza 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Esparza
“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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Emiliano Rossi on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Cristian Esparza
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- Match Temperley draw a blank against Estudiantes
- Looking ahead Luciano Nieto faces his old club
- Player ratings Luciano Nieto beats them one at a time