Marked for Sergio Peralta
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Camilo Machado out for 119 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Madryn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Jul 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Madryn, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Madryn
Elías Ayala 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Claudio Corvalán, and the manager let it.
Match10 Jul 2027
Patronato left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Jul 2027
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sebastián Vega after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Claudio Corvalán
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Julián Cosi's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
137 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Madryn lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Madryn can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nazareno Solís 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Madryn
Yvo Calleros 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 162% of the Madryn income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergio Peralta
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Luis Silba knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Madryn, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Agustín Sosa’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Peralta
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Madryn lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Madryn training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nazareno Solís 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Julián Cosi 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Recalde, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Claudio Corvalán is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Patronato in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Thiago Yossen asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergio Peralta damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rodez AF come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Madryn did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Erik Núñez to Mtarfa has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Madryn with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Madryn
Yvo Calleros and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Luis Silba
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Madryn
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Sebastián Vega was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Madryn dressing room was either.
Match29 Aug 2026
Madryn and Racing cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Racing came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Federico Recalde
Nobody at Madryn is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Peralta
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Madryn lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Madryn can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yvo Calleros 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 Madryn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Nicolás Servetto’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Madryn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Madryn
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nazareno Solís was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.79. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Sebastián Vega, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Market24 Aug 2026
The Erik Núñez conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Mtarfa will make the call about Erik Núñez this week. Madryn have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.