Benjamín Rey

Left Midfielder - Retired
15 Apr 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Benjamín Rey

441 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

8 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Estudiantes tell Maipú: David Đurić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Felipe Marino frozen out at Maipú

This is not rotation. Felipe Marino has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Maipú is pretending otherwise.

The dugout

When it matters, Nahuel Galardi plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pablo Figueroa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Figueroa, and the manager let it.

Market

Yisak Gómez linked with a move away

The name of Yisak Gómez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maipú say nothing, which says plenty.

Match

Maipú in the hunt for Europe

Position 5, 27 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

The dugout

Liam Ramos asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Benjamín Vidal: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Maipú will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market

Bruno Fernández leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Bruno Fernández leaves Maipú the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

Back issues
412 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

19 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Maipú run riot against Madryn

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Yisak Gómez takes the afternoon — 8.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yisak Gómez provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nicolás Heiz scores twice — 8.39

Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Lautaro Delgado agrees terms with Mitre

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Maipú people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Benjamín Rey 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 Maipú can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Ezequiel Rodríguez due for a Maipú medical

Everything agreed with Independiente, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Maipú

Nicolás Heiz 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.

Match

6 goals as Maipú and Madryn go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Maipú and Madryn, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Time is catching up with Nicolás Heiz

Everybody at Maipú saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

In brief