The Güemes Post
Squad21 Jan 2036
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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
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.
Market21 Jan 2036
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.
Market21 Jan 2036
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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
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.
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
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 dugout21 Jan 2036
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 dugout21 Jan 2036
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
- Market The Gianfranco Baier talk will not go away
- Market Güemes put Luis Alberto Torres up for sale
- The dugout Fla asks for a word with the manager