The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Match10 Jan 2028
Every point is an argument now for Newell's Old Boys
Position 15 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Franco Gindin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Franco Gindin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newell's Old Boys the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Guillermo Balzi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guillermo Balzi commits to Newell's Old Boys for another 4 years.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Newell's Old Boys
Luciano Herrera 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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Ignacio Ramírez 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Patricio Albornoz stays at Atlético Tucumán as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Newell's Old Boys will try again when the window opens; Atlético Tucumán may not be selling by then.
Market10 Jan 2028
One of our own: Fernando Castillo joins the Newell's Old Boys first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Castillo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Jan 2028
One of our own: Sergio Cabrera joins the Newell's Old Boys first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Cabrera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Jan 2028
Benjamín Rojas steps up from the Newell's Old Boys academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamín Rojas 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
- Squad Newell's Old Boys are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Ignacio Ramírez asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout A door opens for Raúl Lozano