The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oscar Salomón signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oscar Salomón commits to Newell's Old Boys for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Alan Mereles
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alan Mereles will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newell's Old Boys the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Newell's Old Boys
Matías Cóccaro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Newell's Old Boys promote Juan Manuel Rojas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Manuel Rojas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Newell's Old Boys promote Narigón from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Narigón 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ezequiel Campos joins the Newell's Old Boys first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ezequiel Campos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Walter Mazzantti 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejo Navarro 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Saúl Salcedo
7.35, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Newell's Old Boys had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Squad Jorge Ortega is a square peg at Newell's Old Boys
- The dugout Oscar Salomón knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Juan Manuel Vidal on the draw