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265 Edition

The Ferro Carril Oeste Sentinel

25 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces25 Aug 2031

Anger at Ferro Carril Oeste 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.

Boardroom25 Aug 2031

Pressure builds in the Ferro Carril Oeste boardroom

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

Squad25 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Ferro Carril Oeste

Leonel Szalich was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom25 Aug 2031

Ferro Carril Oeste counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Ferro Carril Oeste now.

The dugout25 Aug 2031

Derlis Ortiz 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 Ferro Carril Oeste, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market25 Aug 2031

Gino Olguín linked with a move away

The name of Gino Olguín keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ferro Carril Oeste say nothing, which says plenty.

The terraces25 Aug 2031

The stands have heard the Alejandro Castillo talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Ferro Carril Oeste would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

Squad25 Aug 2031

Alejandro Castillo 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.

The dugout25 Aug 2031

The manager comes out for Simón Guajardo

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Simón Guajardo has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

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262 Edition

The Ferro Carril Oeste Sentinel

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Aug 2031

11 saves: Leonel Szalich was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom4 Aug 2031

Ferro Carril Oeste spell it out for Carlos Alberto De Luca

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Carlos Alberto De Luca has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match4 Aug 2031

Ferro Carril Oeste finish in position 13

25 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Cristian Matosas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Matosas commits to Ferro Carril Oeste for another 3 years.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Leonel Szalich 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 Ferro Carril Oeste this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market4 Aug 2031

Bubu steps up from the Ferro Carril Oeste academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bubu 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.

Market4 Aug 2031

One of our own: Pity joins the Ferro Carril Oeste first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pity is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market4 Aug 2031

Juan Manuel Morales steps up from the Ferro Carril Oeste academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juan Manuel Morales 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.

Market4 Aug 2031

Ferro Carril Oeste promote Nicolás Medina from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicolás Medina has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief