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The Newell's Old Boys Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ian Glavinovich 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 The request is on a desk at Newell's Old Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Martín Fernández agrees terms with Rentistas

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Newell's Old Boys people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match

Newell's Old Boys are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 40 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

28 days out for Miguel Ferreyra after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newell's Old Boys will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Newell's Old Boys say no — this time

The offer from Botev Vratsa for Valentino Acuña was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Diber Cambindo has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Newell's Old Boys can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Newell's Old Boys training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Walter Mazzantti 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Newell's Old Boys

Julián Contrera 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Erick Sánchez

Newell's Old Boys asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

Back issues
39 Edition

The Newell's Old Boys Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Newell's Old Boys out of the cup

Almagro ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Lucas Carrizo asks to leave Newell's Old Boys

“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.

Match

The view from the top for Newell's Old Boys

21 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Solari

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at Newell's Old Boys

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ian Glavinovich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Walter Mazzantti

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Walter Mazzantti, and the manager let it.

The terraces

Newell's Old Boys supporters have found a favourite in Thiago Mastrolorenzo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Thiago Mastrolorenzo has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thiago Mastrolorenzo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Newell's Old Boys refuse to lose to Racing

A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief