The San Miguel Gazette
Squad27 Dec 2027
The knee: Bruno Nasta out for 93 days
93 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. San Miguel lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market27 Dec 2027
Jorge Ferrero hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what San Miguel can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Lucas Delgado frozen out at San Miguel
This is not rotation. Lucas Delgado has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at San Miguel is pretending otherwise.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A row about effort at San Miguel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Bay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at San Miguel
Matías Benítez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Facundo Moreno out for 26 days
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Facundo Moreno, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market27 Dec 2027
Villa Dálmine are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. San Miguel will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Mateo Serra gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mateo Serra is on it.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Jorge Maureira
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Matías Benítez asks for a word with the manager
- Market Pablo Achaval placed on the list
- Market Cristian Matosas runs his contract down