The Almirante Brown Gazette
Market8 Feb 2027
Ramón González 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 The request is on a desk at Almirante Brown, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Almirante Brown
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market8 Feb 2027
Terms done: Alan Rivero is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Doxa waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Almirante Brown is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Tomás Villoldo says Almirante Brown went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leonardo Jara 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 Almirante Brown this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
3 academy graduates step up at Almirante Brown
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Almirante Brown
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Agustín Dattola was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Santiago Vera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Vera, and the manager let it.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Guapo joins the Almirante Brown first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guapo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Agustín Rossi joins the Almirante Brown first team
- Loan watch Bruno Miño counts the days
- The dugout Agustín Dattola knocks on the manager’s door