Marked for Facundo Vega
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 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 Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Rentistas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Jachfe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Rentistas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nicolás Mallet knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolás Mallet trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Rentistas have made Lucas Castro available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
$1.7M — a new record at Rentistas
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Fabricio Roldán out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rentistas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A move Luciano Jachfe would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luciano Jachfe is living that version at Rentistas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rentistas have done the hard part with Atenas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Rentistas spend $1.7M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.7M for Luciano Jachfe, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Rentistas
Facundo Rodríguez 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Diego Cabrera arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Diego Cabrera has, at Rentistas, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alejandro Godoy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market9 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Rodrigo Sanchez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A new face in his position, and Ramiro Méndez suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Rentistas have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Rentistas
Facundo Rodríguez 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Rentistas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simón Bentancur 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luciano Inverso is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luciano Inverso trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luciano Inverso signs something — a contract at Rentistas or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lucas Rios is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Rentistas
Michel Silveira 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Nicolás Mallet asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Luciano Inverso has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rentistas 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A new face in his position, and Ramiro Méndez suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Rentistas have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Facundo Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Bueno 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.