Marked for Alejandro Silva
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Uneasy
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The offer went to Girona this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market5 Jul 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lanús can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lanús they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $410.0K — a club that wants Tomás Lecanda enough to be asked twice.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lanús this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luciano Romero is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
The goals keep arriving from Franco Watson’s exile
12 goals in 19 games at River Plate — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Lanús updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Crisis
Squad26 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Apr 2027
Lanús out of the cup
Morón ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match24 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Lanús
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lanús are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Lanús
Eduardo Salvio and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match24 Apr 2027
Lanús come up short against Vélez
Vélez left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match24 Apr 2027
Lanús are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Agustín Echaide at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Lanús.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Fernández, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Dylan Aquino, 21, steals the show — 8.48
Marked 8.48 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lanús this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Octavio Ontivero is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match3 Apr 2027
At last: Lanús win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Gimnasia y Esgrima. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
Lanús supporters have found a favourite in Dylan Aquino
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Dylan Aquino has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Apr 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.