The Almirante Brown Gazette
Squad21 Jan 2030
A fracture rules Jorge Merlo out for 122 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Almirante Brown will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Jan 2030
Lucas Vega 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 Almirante Brown can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Tempers go at Almirante Brown
Alejandro Ferraresi 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Matías Vega 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Mateo Giménez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Giménez commits to Almirante Brown for another 3 years.
Market21 Jan 2030
The Mariano Santiago talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Almirante Brown know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Matías Vega in it
- Market The clock does Alexis Leguizamón’s negotiating for him