Facundo Milán

Striker - Tractor
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Facundo Milán

10 Edition

The Tractor Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Domagoj Drožđek

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Tractor

Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh 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 465% of everything Tractor 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

The manager makes an example of Alireza Beiranvand

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Aleksandar Sedlar

19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Home is on Facundo Milán's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tractor are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Player ratings

Radek Šiler keeps on missing

Shots: 19, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Player ratings

Igor Postonjski was the difference for Tractor

Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Saleh Al-Shehri has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tractor will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Central Espanol Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Central Espanol sell a favourite for $290.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Facundo Milán was one of the reasons people came, and $290.0K does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Raúl Tarragona yet — 7.96

At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Máximo Alonso

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Central Espanol say no — this time

The offer from PSIM for Matías Kusmanis 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.

Squad

Máximo Alonso in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Central Espanol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Facundo Milán goes

Tractor paid $290.0K and Central Espanol took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

No hiding place for Marcos Montiel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos Montiel, and the manager let it.

Market

The clock runs on Máximo Alonso's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad

Sebastián Sánchez is still paying for one afternoon at Central Espanol

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

1 Edition

The Central Espanol Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Central Espanol turn down Zob Ahan for Nicolás Campos

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Marcos Montiel stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcos Montiel and Central Espanol agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Central Espanol

Máximo Alonso 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.

Market

Facundo Milán attracts admirers

The name of Facundo Milán has come up in conversations Central Espanol were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Central Espanol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcos Montiel 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.

Match

Central Espanol come up short against Rentistas

Rentistas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

36 months and counting on Marcos Montiel

Still no offer on the table, and Marcos Montiel’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

The manager makes an example of César

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mariano Aguilera

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief