The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Match5 Feb 2028
Nobody wins at Newell's Old Boys
22 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market7 Feb 2028
Gabriel Arias 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 Newell's Old Boys can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Marcelino Moreno stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcelino Moreno and Newell's Old Boys agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Newell's Old Boys tie Juan Manuel Rojas down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Market7 Feb 2028
Kifisia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Newell's Old Boys did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Newell's Old Boys
Ignacio Ramírez 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Newell's Old Boys
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Enzo Díaz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Newell's Old Boys
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.
Match5 Feb 2028
3 matches without a goal for Newell's Old Boys
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
- Market Benjamín Ojeda steps up from the Newell's Old Boys academy
- Market One of our own: Miguel Álvarez joins the Newell's Old Boys first team
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Newell's Old Boys