From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 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 Banfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Luis Alfaro commits to Banfield for another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A new face in his position, and Bruno Sepúlveda suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Banfield have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market11 Jan 2027
A season-long audition: Talleres still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Banfield's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
Banfield say no — this time
The offer from Basaksehir for Facundo Sanguinetti 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Denis Bouanga 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Lisandro Piñero again, and this time the name on the line is Zamora. Banfield are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
33 years old, every age group at this club behind him, and a borrowed player of much the same standard in front of him every Saturday. The parents in the stand have noticed, and so has every kid below him.
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Uneasy
Match28 Dec 2026
Banfield are in real trouble now
Position 14, 11 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.
Market28 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nicolás Meriano: 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.
Squad28 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
103% of the income goes out in wages at Banfield
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lautaro Villegas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Denis Bouanga 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.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Lautaro Gómez 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 Gómez stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lautaro Villegas 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A season on the outside for Denis Bouanga
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Banfield has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sergio Vittor: 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Dec 2026
Jeifer Nontoa 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.
Squad14 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Business is business: Gino Santilli goes
Vélez paid $380.0K and Banfield took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market14 Dec 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Lautaro Ríos
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lautaro Ríos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Banfield the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market7 Dec 2026
Gino Santilli hands in a written request
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Talleres 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.
Squad7 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The fee is $150.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Chaco For Ever drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
Banfield sink to position 14
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nicolás Colazo: 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.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
Lautaro Ríos hands in a written request
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Lautaro Gómez: 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clock does Lautaro Ríos’s negotiating for him
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Banfield could ask drops and the wages Lautaro Ríos can ask rise.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Rodrigo Auzmendi’s exile
5 goals in 12 games at San Lorenzo — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Banfield updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Uneasy
Squad16 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
Favio Álvarez 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Santiago López García trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Gino Santilli hands in a written request
“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.
Squad9 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Banfield game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dibba runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Match2 Nov 2026
Banfield sink to position 14
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Banfield
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Al-Shabab to sit and watch. I want to come back to Banfield and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad2 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
Lautaro Ríos hands in a written request
“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.
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.52 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Danilo Arboleda
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
12 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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Crisis
Squad19 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Gimnasia La Plata, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Esquivel, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 5.70, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.92 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad12 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
It needed Favio Álvarez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Racing Club, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Uneasy
Match5 Oct 2026
Banfield sink to position 13
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market5 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 196% of everything Banfield 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.93 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Uneasy
Market28 Sep 2026
Lautaro Ríos hands in a written request
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Lautaro Ríos
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Banfield
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Banfield are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sergio Vittor 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 Sergio Vittor trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Banfield
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Banfield are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Colazo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.92 on the card, and the Banfield support went home talking about one name.
Match19 Sep 2026
Banfield and Tigre cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Tigre came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Banfield, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Lautaro Ríos
Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Banfield
1‑4 against Independiente Rivadavia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mauro Méndez, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 2 saves does not settle it either way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
David Zalazar 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 David Zalazar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match2 Sep 2026
The small margins put Banfield out
Out, 1‑1 to All Boys, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Facundo Sanguinetti: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad7 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 164% of everything Banfield 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolás Meriano, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Banfield will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Banfield will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Banfield
A 4‑2 win over San Miguel, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 34. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market31 Aug 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Sergio Vittor
“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 ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.77, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Nicolás Rojas, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Alejandro Herrera obliged against Morón. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Banfield.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Nicolás Rojas
Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad24 Aug 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 13, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bukhara are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Banfield will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bruno Sepúlveda 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 9.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Favio Álvarez’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Match8 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ignacio Abraham 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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Sepúlveda and Banfield agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Adoryan, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Barracas Central leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad3 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 5.18 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 5.46, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.