The River Plate Sentinel
Squad7 Feb 2028
28 days out for Guille Rosas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. River Plate will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Feb 2028
Not going: Juan Carlos Portillo stays at River Plate
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Belgrano had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market7 Feb 2028
Giovanni González asks to leave River Plate
“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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
River Plate tie Iván Arce down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Market7 Feb 2028
So close: Jonás Miszczuk’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Rosario Central moved on, Jonás Miszczuk reports back to River Plate, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at River Plate
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match5 Feb 2028
Rafael Santos Borré the difference as River Plate beat Barracas Central
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rafael Santos Borré. 2‑1 against Barracas Central, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market7 Feb 2028
Valentín Romano steps up from the River Plate academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentín Romano 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.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Ninety minutes of Ángel Correa at his very best
Marked 8.32. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at River Plate.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jeremías Ledesma
- The dugout Mauro Arambarri has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Iván Arce: “That is the standard”