The All Boys Gazette | Open Football Simulator

3 Edition

17 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Tomás Assennato runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market17 Aug 2026

Franco Stechina asks to leave All Boys

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad17 Aug 2026

All Boys count the cost of losing Lucas Cano

28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ricardo Blanco 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 All Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Aug 2026

Agustín Lucero steps up from the All Boys academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Agustín Lucero has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market17 Aug 2026

Chifle steps up from the All Boys academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chifle has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Ricardo Varela joins the All Boys first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ricardo Varela is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at All Boys

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustavo Turraca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch17 Aug 2026

Benjamín González has seen enough of Obolon

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at All Boys, and 0 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

The dugout Lionel Jara gets it from the manager
The dugout Valentino Varela on the point
The dugout Ricardo Blanco left out for tactical reasons at All Boys

2 Edition

10 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match8 Aug 2026

All Boys let it slip despite Claudio Campostrini

Claudio Campostrini had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Patronato were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Matías Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market10 Aug 2026

Benjamín González says no to Barnsley

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Benjamín González had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market10 Aug 2026

Gian Ortega Ocampo asks to leave All Boys

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market10 Aug 2026

FF Jaro come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and All Boys did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at All Boys

Santiago Apa 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A row about effort at All Boys

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ricardo Blanco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Nicolás Carrizo

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nobody at All Boys has picked up the phone to Nicolás Barrientos

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

Squad Too much change too quickly at All Boys
Match Honours even between All Boys and Patronato
The dugout The view from the dugout

1 Edition

3 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Aug 2026

Nowhere to hide for All Boys

1‑4 against Racing, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Juan Pablo Noce stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market3 Aug 2026

All Boys say no — this time

The offer from Gijón for Tiago Libares 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ricardo Blanco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ricardo Blanco commits to All Boys for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at All Boys

Santiago Apa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at All Boys training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Blanco 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Alexis Melo wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Claudio Campostrini at his very best

Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at All Boys.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Nobody left the All Boys dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

Market The clock runs on Lucas Cano's contract
The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Alejo Tabares's mistake
The dugout The manager’s verdict