The Deportivo Laferrere Gazette
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Deportivo Laferrere run out of patience with Franco Benítez
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Franco Benítez clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Market5 Feb 2029
Jeremías Denis is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Laferrere is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Pablo Bruno steps up at Deportivo Laferrere for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Deportivo Laferrere
Nicolás Muscio 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.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Deportivo Laferrere
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Deportivo Laferrere counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Deportivo Laferrere now.
Transfer targets5 Feb 2029
Godoy Cruz tell Deportivo Laferrere: Sebastián Gonzalez is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Luciano Nebot is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Market5 Feb 2029
One of our own: Juan Manuel Campos joins the Deportivo Laferrere first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Juan Manuel Campos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Iván Castillo joins the Deportivo Laferrere first team
- Market Deportivo Laferrere promote Pablo Marino from within
- The dugout No hiding place for Kevin Mendoza