Pichi

Left Forward - Free Agent
18 Apr 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Pichi

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
432 Edition

The Maipú Sentinel

6 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Somebody else wants Valentín Bianchi

Mjondalen have made their interest known and Maipú have to have a conversation they never wanted. A manager other clubs ask about is a manager whose next contract costs more.

Squad

Mateo Ortale signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mateo Ortale and Maipú agree another 4 years.

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.

Market

The Nicolás Heiz question follows Maipú around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nicolás Heiz’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Pichi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Maipú will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Maipú and Pablo Figueroa are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Maipú

27 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

The dugout

Matías Cohen 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 Maipú, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The clock does Nehemías Rodríguez’s negotiating for him

5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Maipú could ask drops and the wages Nehemías Rodríguez can ask rise.

In brief