The Estudiantes Gazette
Squad14 Jun 2038
Claudio Lopez damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2038
Age has not caught Leandro Duarte yet — 8.65
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.65 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market14 Jun 2038
Estudiantes say no — this time
The offer from Patronato for Luis Alberto Rodríguez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match12 Jun 2038
The wait goes on for Estudiantes
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Jun 2038
Bill 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.
Match12 Jun 2038
A bad afternoon for Estudiantes against Morón
1‑2 to Morón, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Jun 2038
No hiding place for Matías Valenti
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Valenti, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Jun 2038
Iván Peralta signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iván Peralta commits to Estudiantes for another 3 years.
Market14 Jun 2038
Ferro Carril Oeste are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Estudiantes will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Player ratings Bill runs at them all day
- Market The Tobías Ostchega talk will not go away
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Nicolás Valdemarín