The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Comunicaciones is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Facundo Fabello 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.
Words at Comunicaciones training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Conrado Puigdellivol 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.
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.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Pablo Ruiz is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Sergio Campos could afford to be generous.
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Conrado Puigdellivol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Comunicaciones told Germán Yacaruso something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
16 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Medina and Comunicaciones agree another 3 years.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.24 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Comunicaciones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A 1‑0 win over Villa Dálmine, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gonzalo Zabala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Sergio Campos could afford to be generous.
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 Gonzalo Zabala is on it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aarón Barquett trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Agustín Callejas and Comunicaciones agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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 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.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Comunicaciones know which stage they are at.
Villa Dálmine next, and one man in the Comunicaciones dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Comunicaciones know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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 Facundo González has written the date down.
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Comunicaciones could ask drops and the wages Conrado Puigdellivol can ask rise.
In brief
The dugoutGonzalo Zabala asks for a word with the manager
Looking aheadLooking ahead: the trip to Villa Dálmine
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Comunicaciones they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Maximiliano Brambillo and Comunicaciones agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Comunicaciones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
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 clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Comunicaciones is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jeremías Heidenreich has agreed terms with Unión de Santa Fe for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Pablo Ruiz 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.
13 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Néstor Esteche was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Pablo Ruiz 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.
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sergio Campos kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Comunicaciones man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Sergio Sosa was the best thing in any of them.
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 Sebastián Gallo is on it.
Facundo Fabello 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Conrado Puigdellivol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Sergio Campos kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Comunicaciones will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Comunicaciones, another week without a signature from Conrado Puigdellivol.
Gonzalo Jaque 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.
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Gonzalo Jaque
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gonzalo Jaque has come out of that comparison in the side, and Comunicaciones have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nicolás Ruiz 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.
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Comunicaciones than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Nobody at Comunicaciones 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.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Germán Yacaruso’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Comunicaciones needing him to play as if none of it matters.
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Comunicaciones could ask drops and the wages Jeremías Heidenreich can ask rise.
Aldosivi go through and Comunicaciones go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Comunicaciones they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Maximiliano Brambillo 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.
12 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 supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Pablo Ruiz 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.
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Abdel Razack has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Comunicaciones have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Maximiliano Brambillo. 2‑0 against Argentino de Merlo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Comunicaciones know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Sergio Sosa has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Gonzalo Zabala’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Comunicaciones needing him to play as if none of it matters.
A brace, and Sergio Sosa takes the afternoon — 9.04
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sergio Sosa provided it, and the 9.04 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The offer from Astana for Edilson Gimenez 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.
Pablo Ruiz 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.
Gimnasia La Plata will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Gonzalo Errecalde has pre-agreed a move to Comunicaciones, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sergio Sosa. 2‑0 against Deportivo Laferrere, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pancho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tomás Rojas 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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Alonso 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Comunicaciones this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Conrado Puigdellivol was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Still no offer on the table, and Sebastián Carruega’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Comunicaciones 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.