40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Potencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Potencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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 words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Matías Duffard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Ramos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
An order from above at Potencia: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Matías Duffard 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.
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.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Potencia will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Potencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matías Ramos 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.
Nahuel Peralta 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.
At 38, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad19 Oct 2026
29 new faces, and Potencia 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.
In brief
SquadMatías Ramos falls out with a teammate over standards
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
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. Potencia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Potencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Potencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Potencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Potencia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Potencia will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Nahuel Peralta 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.
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
27 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.
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Potencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Adrián Argachá 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.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Potencia know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Potencia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Nahuel Peralta 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.
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Nahuel Peralta 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.
Progreso will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lautaro Fernández has pre-agreed a move to Potencia, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Tourreilles and Potencia agree another 3 years.
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. Potencia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Central Espanol go through and Potencia go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nicolás Márquez has, at Potencia, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Potencia know which stage they are at.
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Mauro Ledesma arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Potencia, another week without a signature from Nicolás Márquez.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Gomez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brian Diaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fernando Godoy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.