The Argentino de Merlo Gazette
Market4 Dec 2028
Enzo Suraci 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 Argentino de Merlo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Tempers go at Argentino de Merlo
Alejo Tello 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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Words at Argentino de Merlo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enzo Suraci 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Tomás Barbero attracts admirers
The name of Tomás Barbero has come up in conversations Argentino de Merlo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match2 Dec 2028
Flandria take the points off Argentino de Merlo
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Argentino de Merlo lose Facundo Silva
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Andrés Arce to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
A loan move for Gabriel Ayala is in the works
Argentino de Merlo have made the call to Ferro Carril Oeste. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
A loan move for Juan Segundo Miretti is in the works
Argentino de Merlo have made the call to River Plate. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Squad Nahuel Sica is no longer first choice
- The dugout César Júlio gets it from the manager
- Market Argentino de Merlo and Ezequiel Cohen are talking past each other