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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Banfield have lost him in all but the paperwork.
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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Marcos Benítez has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Banfield have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Banfield asked and Sport Recife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexis Ordóñez commits to Banfield for another 3 years.
Market21 Dec 2026
Banfield bring in an old head
Lucas Alario is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
10 appearances at San Lorenzo and the goals keep coming. Banfield are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The formation has left Alexis Ordóñez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Banfield will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
110 days out for Ramón Lentini after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Banfield will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Banfield can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ignacio Pais: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Banfield have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago López García 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Lucas Palavecino has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Banfield 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 Dec 2026
Somebody is after Nehuén Paz’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Nehuén Paz suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Banfield have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ramón Lentini breaks a bone — 118 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 Banfield, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Banfield
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Banfield
Diego 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Palavecino and Banfield agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Atalanta: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A loan enquiry to Corinthians: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ramón Lentini out for 126 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match30 Nov 2026
Banfield are in real trouble now
Position 15, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Supporters organise against the Banfield board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Banfield may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market30 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Joaquín Molina
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joaquín Molina will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Banfield the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Abraham 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Ramón Lentini 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 Ramón Lentini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
135 days out for Ramón Lentini after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Banfield will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Banfield may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago López García 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Banfield are still strangers to each other
5 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
10 appearances at San Lorenzo and the goals keep coming. Banfield are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Abraham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of David Zalazar
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Palavecino will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Banfield the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Lucas Palavecino has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Banfield
Diego 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
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Abraham 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Palavecino, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nicolás Rojas gets picked when it counts
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 Nicolás Rojas is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ramón Lentini has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Nov 2026
Banfield are in real trouble now
Position 15, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Banfield spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market2 Nov 2026
Joaquín Molina has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Banfield they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago López García 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramón Lentini, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
6 shut-outs in 10 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Facundo Sanguinetti has been having a lot of them.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Cristian Erbes delivers — 7.67
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Cristian Erbes scored, was marked 7.67, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad26 Oct 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Banfield
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos López commits to Banfield for another 5 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Lautaro Ríos gets it from the manager
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Level with 94 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Banfield had all but put away. Gimnasia La Plata will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.88. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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 Banfield, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Banfield
Diego 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Adoryan commits to Banfield for another 3 years.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago López García 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
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 79 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Banfield
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Banfield are no longer polite ones.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Banfield
1‑4 against Rosario Central, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match5 Oct 2026
Banfield sink to position 15
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Banfield is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
Nehuén Paz gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gino Santilli has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 87 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Sep 2026
Banfield cannot find the net
7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad28 Sep 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Abraham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Aldosivi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and Banfield are still learning each other
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Moretti after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 matches without a goal for Banfield
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Banfield against Tigre
0‑1 to Tigre, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Moretti to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Imanol Varela and Banfield agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Sep 2026
Banfield cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Aktobe deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Gino Santilli reports back to Banfield with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Abraham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
7.12, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Banfield had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ricardo Moretti chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
Joaquín Molina has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Banfield they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Banfield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Abraham 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Banfield have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Lautaro Ríos gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gino Santilli commits to Banfield for another 4 years.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Banfield
Independiente Rivadavia top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Market7 Sep 2026
Lautaro Cano is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Banfield has been clear about where Lautaro Cano stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Diego Rodríguez out for 119 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Banfield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Banfield
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Banfield
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Banfield are still learning each other
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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ricardo Moretti after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Morón ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Banfield's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Banfield has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Banfield
Diego 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
Ignacio Abraham 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Banfield
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Banfield
Diego 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Abraham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to River Plate, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Erbes, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ricardo Moretti after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Huracán in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A first team debut at 19 for Alan Melognio
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 19. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Banfield
Lautaro Ríos has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ignacio Abraham and Banfield agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Joaquín Molina has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Banfield they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. David Sotelo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Banfield have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pablo Otero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maximiliano De Luca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Noah Núñez 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market3 Aug 2026
PAOK come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Banfield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Rodríguez commits to Banfield for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Diego Rodríguez 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Banfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Abraham was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Banfield
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ignacio Abraham trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Lautaro Ríos
Still no offer on the table, and Lautaro Ríos’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ricardo Moretti after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.