The Independiente Rivadavia Gazette
Market27 Mar 2034
Juan Álvarez is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Independiente Rivadavia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Words exchanged at Independiente Rivadavia
Ezequiel Naya 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.
Squad27 Mar 2034
A row about effort at Independiente Rivadavia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Córdoba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Daniel Ramos out for 33 days
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Daniel Ramos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Independiente Rivadavia are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout27 Mar 2034
Ykaro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Looking ahead27 Mar 2034
Vicente Spinetti faces his old club
Gimnasia La Plata next, and one man in the Independiente Rivadavia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market27 Mar 2034
The Lautaro Torres Calderón question follows Independiente Rivadavia around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lautaro Torres Calderón’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market27 Mar 2034
Independiente Rivadavia and Nicolas Fuentes 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.
In brief
- Market The clock does Lautaro Torres Calderón’s negotiating for him
- The dugout Enzo Vlaeminch has been promised minutes
- The dugout Jeferson Caraballo asks for a word with the manager