Ricardo Arce

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
17 Aug 2036
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ricardo Arce

477 Edition

The Independiente Herald

17 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Benjamín Peralta leads the rout of Central Córdoba SdE

3‑0, and Benjamín Peralta took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Independiente tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Benjamín Peralta takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Benjamín Peralta provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Vinko Kolaković 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 The request is on a desk at Independiente, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Ricardo Arce keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Precious Ogbeiwi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Independiente they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Independiente

Diego Tarzia 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.

Boardroom

Precious Ogbeiwi signs for Atlético Tucumán while still at Independiente

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Precious Ogbeiwi has agreed terms with Atlético Tucumán for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Words at Independiente training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Quintana 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Joel Orlando

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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The Independiente Herald

6 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Aaron Silva's — 8.38

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.38, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Vinko Kolaković 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 Independiente, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Vinko Kolaković keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Independiente may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Álex Segura has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Independiente they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Nicolás Barros Schelotto 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 Independiente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Independiente get the job done against Nueva Chicago

A 3‑1 win over Nueva Chicago, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Maher Carrizo

Independiente asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Aaron Silva 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.

Market

Nicolás Alonso steps up from the Independiente academy

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

467 Edition

The Independiente Herald

9 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Felipe Schaare asks to leave Independiente

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Juan Boyer has said yes to San Martín de Burzaco

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Independiente have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Juventud come back empty-handed

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

The dugout

Facundo Quintana: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Independiente have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Camilo Rey Domenech attracts admirers

The name of Camilo Rey Domenech has come up in conversations Independiente were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

Diego Barros is a medical away from Independiente

The deal with San Lorenzo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at Independiente

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

Boardroom

Miguel Ángel Castro has agreed to leave Independiente for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Thiago Pérez 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.

In brief