Facundo Bianchi

Defensive Midfielder - Estudiantes
15 Apr 2029
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132 Edition

The Estudiantes Gazette

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Valentín Ramos is out at Estudiantes

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

The terraces5 Feb 2029

Anger at Estudiantes spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match3 Feb 2029

Chastening afternoon for Estudiantes

A 0‑4 beating by Estudiantes was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Estudiantes have nobody left to take training

Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.

Squad5 Feb 2029

7 saves: Francisco Alfonsín was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Interim Coach takes charge at Estudiantes

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Market5 Feb 2029

Victor Herrera puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Estudiantes, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Facundo Bianchi says Estudiantes went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match3 Feb 2029

No end in sight to Estudiantes's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Estudiantes has to find a result from somewhere.

In brief

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The Estudiantes Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market20 Nov 2028

Lautaro Herrera 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 Estudiantes can pretend not to have heard.

Squad20 Nov 2028

A falling-out at Estudiantes

Alejandro Cabrera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad20 Nov 2028

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Romero 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.

In brief

120 Edition

The Estudiantes Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces13 Nov 2028

Supporters organise against the Estudiantes board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom13 Nov 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Estudiantes

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Francisco Romero frozen out at Estudiantes

This is not rotation. Francisco Romero has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Estudiantes is pretending otherwise.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Mauro Valiente in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Estudiantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch13 Nov 2028

Ramiro Bornia has seen enough of Las Palmas

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Estudiantes, and 3 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

Market13 Nov 2028

Alejandro Cabrera linked with a move away

The name of Alejandro Cabrera keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Estudiantes say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch13 Nov 2028

The goals keep arriving from Tobías Leiva’s exile

5 goals in 13 games at All Boys — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Estudiantes updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Facundo Bianchi knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Estudiantes, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Jorge Gamarra is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief