The Estudiantes Chronicle
Squad30 Aug 2027
The knee: Franco Domínguez Ávila out for 24 days
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Estudiantes lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market30 Aug 2027
Michaël Cuisance wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market30 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Santino Crego
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santino Crego will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Estudiantes the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Michaël Cuisance 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Lucas Ramos joins the Estudiantes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lucas Ramos is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market30 Aug 2027
Estudiantes promote Alejandro López from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alejandro López has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Estudiantes
Ezequiel Piovi 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.
Loan watch30 Aug 2027
The goals keep arriving from Ezequiel Naya’s exile
12 goals in 25 games at Central Córdoba SdE — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Estudiantes updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
When it matters, Joaquín Correa plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Loan watch 9 goals on loan for Matías Godoy
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Lautaro Mora gets it from the manager