The Newell's Old Boys Herald
Squad14 Apr 2036
The knee: Gianluca Valdiviezo out for 16 days
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Newell's Old Boys lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Apr 2036
Francisco Delgado leads the rout of Instituto
3‑0, and Francisco Delgado took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Newell's Old Boys tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market14 Apr 2036
Tomás Perri is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Newell's Old Boys is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Apr 2036
Liam Muñoz 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 The request is on a desk at Newell's Old Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Apr 2036
Newell's Old Boys cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Tempers go at Newell's Old Boys
Thiago Rojas 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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
A row about effort at Newell's Old Boys
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thiago Silvero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Apr 2036
One of those days for Dylan Salvo
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market14 Apr 2036
Talks stall between Newell's Old Boys and Gonzalo Zelarayán
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Newell's Old Boys pick somebody else ahead of Thiago Rojas
- The dugout Interim Coach has his say
- Market D'Hidier Pereira told to find a new club