The Estudiantes Gazette
Squad11 Jan 2027
78 days out for Alejandro Cabrera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Estudiantes will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Martín Garnerone 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.
Match11 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Estudiantes
Position 13 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market11 Jan 2027
Waitakere United watching Lucas González
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Estudiantes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Estudiantes
Alejandro Cabrera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Time is catching up with Ramón Ábila
Everybody at Estudiantes saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Agustín Morales signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agustín Morales and Estudiantes agree another 4 years.
Market11 Jan 2027
Estudiantes promote Emiliano Otero from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emiliano Otero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jan 2027
Iván Pérez steps up from the Estudiantes academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Pérez 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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Tobías Leiva
- The dugout Matías Ruiz Díaz knocks on the manager’s door