Iván Peralta

Central Midfielder - Estudiantes
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Iván Peralta

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The Estudiantes Gazette

14 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

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The Estudiantes Gazette

23 Mar 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nicolás Garnica damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.

Squad

Tomás González out for 18 days

The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Tomás González, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

Defensores Unidos take the points off Estudiantes

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Estudiantes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bill is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bill

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Matías Valenti has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Estudiantes 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

Tobías Ostchega linked with a move away

The name of Tobías Ostchega keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Estudiantes say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings

Iván Peralta could not find anything

5.72. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

Player ratings

Miguel Castillo could not find anything

5.77. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief