The River Plate Post
Squad12 Jul 2027
Cecilio Domínguez damages knee ligaments — 71 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 71 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Jul 2027
9 saves: Francisco Peralta was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Jul 2027
Every point is an argument now for River Plate
Position 10 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match12 Jul 2027
Full time on the season at River Plate
Position 10 on 14 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Market12 Jul 2027
Jonathan Amarilla agrees terms with Sportivo Ameliano
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around River Plate people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market12 Jul 2027
Brian Mendoza 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 River Plate can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at River Plate
Alexis Rojas 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
River Plate rebuffed over Alan Cano
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpia have kept their man, and River Plate go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Jul 2027
Ivan Gimenez steps up from the River Plate academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ivan Gimenez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Fernando Barrios joins the River Plate first team
- Match A bad afternoon for River Plate against Guarani
- The dugout Derlis Peralta: “No excuses”