The Nueva Chicago Sentinel
Squad25 Jun 2029
Pipa damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market25 Jun 2029
Bruno Palazzo 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 Nueva Chicago can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jun 2029
Tiziano Pasquarelli has said yes to Deportivo Merlo
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nueva Chicago have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market25 Jun 2029
Agustín Chávez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nueva Chicago they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
The paperwork begins on Tomás Adoryan
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nueva Chicago have done the hard part with Banfield, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
Nueva Chicago rebuffed over Lautaro Rojas
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Nueva Chicago go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A falling-out at Nueva Chicago
Luciano Jachfe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
Too dear: Nueva Chicago walk away from Bartolomé Velásquez
$150.0K was the most the club would pay and Patronato were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market25 Jun 2029
Nicolás Bardagi attracts admirers
The name of Nicolás Bardagi has come up in conversations Nueva Chicago were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
In brief
- Squad Facundo Castro falls out with a teammate over standards
- Transfer targets Nueva Chicago ask about Lautaro Villegas
- The dugout Iván Antunes knocks on the manager’s door