The Liniers Post
Squad15 Oct 2035
Agustín Curruhinca damages knee ligaments — 138 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad15 Oct 2035
A fracture rules Thiago De Bellis out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Liniers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Oct 2035
Miguel Ángel Torres steps up from the Liniers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miguel Ángel Torres 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.
Market15 Oct 2035
One of our own: Alejandro Ramírez joins the Liniers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Ramírez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market15 Oct 2035
Leonardo Pérez steps up from the Liniers academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Leonardo Pérez 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.
Market15 Oct 2035
One of our own: Felipe Moretti joins the Liniers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Moretti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Too much change too quickly at Liniers
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad15 Oct 2035
Moussa Djitté falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout15 Oct 2035
Patrick Thorsby 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.
In brief
- The dugout Joaquín Bigo has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager makes Pablo Ferrari a promise
- The dugout Agustín Curruhinca asks for a word with the manager