Darwin Ramirez

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Arsenal
20 Oct 2031
Monday
Process

Marked for Darwin Ramirez

232 Edition

The Arsenal Chronicle

6 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Joaquín Ochoa Giménez damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.

Boardroom

Arsenal put Juan Manuel De Luca on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

Emergency meeting at Arsenal

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Squad

José Castillo breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Uri Weissman 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 The request is on a desk at Arsenal, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Santiago Gutierrez frozen out at Arsenal

This is not rotation. Santiago Gutierrez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Arsenal is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Arsenal walk away from Jorge Pérez

$800.00 was the most the club would pay and Mitre 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.

Transfer targets

Arsenal rebuffed over Máximo Johnston

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colón have kept their man, and Arsenal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Diego Zumbo 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 Arsenal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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The Arsenal Chronicle

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Arsenal 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.

Squad

Nahuel Pezzini stands alone

10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Arsenal

Position 14 and 15 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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Arsenal boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Santiago Gutierrez 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 Arsenal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arsenal

Nahuel Pezzini 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.

Squad

Augusto Ghiglione stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Augusto Ghiglione and Arsenal agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

A bad afternoon for Arsenal against Sarmiento

1‑2 to Sarmiento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ramiro Cáceres

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief