The River Plate Gazette
Market21 Jul 2031
Terms done: Nahuel Acosta is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Defensor Sporting waiting with a shirt. Nobody at River Plate is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market21 Jul 2031
Manuel Severich asks to leave River Plate
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Washington Aguerre keeps River Plate in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Deadline passes with 7 signed and 13 gone
That is the business done at River Plate until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
No thanks: Gabriel Sánchez rejects the move
River Plate had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Danubio, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market21 Jul 2031
Mateo Elisseche is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at River Plate is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words exchanged at River Plate
Gabriel Salguero 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.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words at River Plate training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastián de Marco 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.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
River Plate rebuffed over Lautaro Piola
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Defensa y Justicia have kept their man, and River Plate go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Sebastián de Marco
- Match River Plate rescue it on 91 minutes
- The dugout Washington Aguerre gets picked when it counts