It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Miramar Misiones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
14 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Miramar Misiones, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes Bruno Serrón a promise
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Miramar Misiones have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Miramar Misiones, and it is not being withdrawn.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Miramar Misiones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Miramar Misiones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Miramar Misiones, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Peña will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Miramar Misiones the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Argüello 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.
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emiliano Saliadarre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Peña will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Miramar Misiones the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Lucas Peña has agreed terms with Potencia for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Mateo Argüello 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emiliano Saliadarre 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.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Fabricio Tirado has come out of that comparison in the side, and Miramar Misiones have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Bruno Serrón is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jhony da Silva’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Miramar Misiones needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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 Mauricio Lacerda is on it.
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Maximiliano Caetano 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.
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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ignacio Cardozo after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.