The Maipú Sentinel
Market8 Feb 2027
Gastón Mansilla asks to leave Maipú
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Maipú
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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Joaquín Bassani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Gastón Mansilla 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 Maipú this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
2 academy players handed senior numbers at Maipú
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Maipú training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcelo Eggel 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Maipú
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Aron Agüero
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Sergio Russo joins the Maipú first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Russo 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 Maipú promote Martín Fernández from within
- Squad Fausto Montero knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom Maipú turn down the training-ground plan