Fla

Defensive Midfielder - Güemes U18
28 Aug 2036
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Process

Marked for Fla

495 Edition

The Güemes Post

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastián Salas

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Güemes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Gabriel Mihoreanu out for 40 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Güemes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Juan Martín Sánchez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Güemes can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Tomás Rojas has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Güemes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Güemes

Dionel Ansaldo 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 155% of everything Güemes earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Güemes 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 dugout

Dionel Ansaldo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Güemes 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.

The dugout

Tomás Martínez 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

Back issues
481 Edition

The Güemes Post

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Salas out for 112 days

112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Güemes lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A fracture rules Franco Russo out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Güemes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at Güemes

Dionel Ansaldo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Gianluca Pugliese 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.

The dugout

Dionel Ansaldo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Güemes 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

Still no ink between Güemes and Nazareno Bazán Vera

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Güemes, another week without a signature from Nazareno Bazán Vera.

Squad

A row about effort at Güemes

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

No place for Daniel Silva in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Daniel Silva has his answer from Güemes; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Looking ahead

Nazareno Bazán Vera goes back to face Tristán Suárez

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nazareno Bazán Vera’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Güemes needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

  • Market The Dionel Ansaldo story refuses to die
  • The dugout Fla knocks on the manager's door
  • Boardroom The Güemes academy earns its keep