The Racing Courier
Squad7 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nahuel Vega
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Matías Machado
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matías Machado will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Racing the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A one-man rearguard from Brian Olivera
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Matías Machado frozen out at Racing
This is not rotation. Matías Machado has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Racing is pretending otherwise.
Market7 Feb 2028
The Madryn deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Benjamín Rosales reports back to Racing with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Racing
Ignacio Valsangiácomo 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Racing
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Alejandro Rébola 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
3 matches without a goal for Racing
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Álvaro Marín
- The dugout Alejandro Rébola gets it from the manager
- Market Racing promote Sergio Bruno from within