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Market1 Feb 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Federico Varese had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Racing
Álex Vázquez 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro Brazionis 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iván Manzur and Racing agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout1 Feb 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Tomás Habib 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 Tomás Habib is on it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I will play as long as the body lets me and stop the day it does not.” He is 36, with 298 appearances behind him, and the club has to plan for a decision that is not yet made.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Iván Manzur had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Racing
Álex Vázquez 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Facundo Machado commits to Racing for another 4 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Racing are still strangers to each other
10 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Bosca, and the manager let it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Iván Manzur has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sebastián da Silva signs something — a contract at Racing or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Racing will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Market18 Jan 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Aswan had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market18 Jan 2027
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Nagoya Grampus for Federico Varese 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.
Squad18 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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Álex Vázquez 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Facundo Parada has his answer from Racing; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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 dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Bosca's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
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Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Union La Calera waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Racing is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jan 2027
River Plate come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sebastián da Silva and Racing agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Jan 2027
Aswan are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Racing will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Federico Varese again, and this time the name on the line is Nagoya Grampus. Racing are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout11 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Álex Vázquez 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 Álex Vázquez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad11 Jan 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Racing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 2027
Jaguares come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Racing have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Elías Bentancor has agreed terms with Boston River for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Quilmes have kept their man, and Racing go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Bosca and Racing agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Racing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Racing will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Dec 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Racing they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Uruguay Montevideo have kept their man, and Racing go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Racing are still strangers to each other
7 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.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
A loan move for Dušan Jovanović is in the works
Racing have made the call to Radnicki Nis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Iván Manzur 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 Iván Manzur is on it.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Racing have done the hard part with Rodina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Bautista Tomatis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Cerro wanted more than $220.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Iván Suárez commits to Racing for another 2 years.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Racing asked and Aguilas Doradas 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
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Brazionis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Federico Varese has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Bosca's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Racing people have started saying his name in the past tense.
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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: San Luis keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
$170.0K on the table at Cerro. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Dec 2026
Penarol pay $350.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
$73.0K was the most the club would pay and Oriental were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Montevideo City Torque will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tomás Shaw has pre-agreed a move to Racing, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
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Market7 Dec 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Nacional for Federico Varese 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Racing have done the hard part with San Luis, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Bautista Tomatis 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Add another name to the list: Miramar Misiones have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luciano Di Candia. The answer from Racing has not changed — yet.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ángel Cayetano and Racing agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Racing, and 11 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Rodrigo Teliz has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ángel Cayetano commits to Racing for another 1 years.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
When it matters, Tomás Habib plays
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.
Market30 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Federico Varese signs something — a contract at Racing or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Juan Bosca 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Racing have made Mario Zipitría available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Questions about William Klingender on the training pitch
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Esteban da Silva’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Market23 Nov 2026
Nicolás Sosa 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 Racing can pretend not to have heard.
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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lucas Modernell and Racing agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Federico Varese has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Juan Bosca is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Esteban da Silva’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Racing will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market23 Nov 2026
Racing shop where it costs nothing
Lucas Modernell signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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 Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mario Zipitría and Racing agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Parada
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
No place for Joe Arreche in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Racing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Diego Cheuquepal has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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 Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramiro Brazionis 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 Sebastián da Silva, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
No place for Diego Sena in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Racing are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Franco Suárez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Bautista Tomatis 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
When it matters, Tomás Habib plays
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and William Klingender trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Federico Varese signs something — a contract at Racing or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout2 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 Sebastián da Silva has written the date down.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The penny has dropped for Axel Atum
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Racing the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Market26 Oct 2026
Nicolás Sosa 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 Racing can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Bautista Tomatis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Álex Vázquez 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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 Federico Varese is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Bosca's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market26 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Esteban da Silva’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout26 Oct 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 Racing, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad26 Oct 2026
José Varela is the talk of the training ground
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
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The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Diego Cheuquepal has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market19 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
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 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Juan Bosca 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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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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
Álex Vázquez 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
“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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ángel Cayetano and Racing agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Racing
19 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
When it matters, Tomás Habib plays
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.
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Market28 Sep 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.
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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Franco Suárez commits to Racing for another 4 years.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Federico Varese has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Bosca's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Steady
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Racing will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Racing. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Bautista Tomatis 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Racing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álex Vázquez 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 Sep 2026
Franco Suárez 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 Franco Suárez is on it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Racing know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The penny has dropped for Axel Atum
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Racing the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Bautista Tomatis 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Varese, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Brazionis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
19 new faces, and Racing 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jonathan Acosta after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Iván Manzur conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Zob Ahan will make the call about Iván Manzur this week. Racing have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Sep 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Yury Oyarzo 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 Yury Oyarzo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market31 Aug 2026
The Eibar deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Agustín De la Cuesta reports back to Racing with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Racing
Bautista Tomatis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Racing have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jonathan Acosta after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Facundo Parada, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Federico Varese has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Racing 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Juan Bosca is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Racing
6‑7 against Rentistas, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Match22 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Miramar Misiones, and it could have been more.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Nicolás Sosa takes the afternoon — 9.51
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nicolás Sosa provided it, and the 9.51 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tomás Habib takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.62 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
José Varela, 38, rolls back the years — 8.15
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.15 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Racing is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Racing through in the cup
A 1‑2 win over Boston River, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match12 Aug 2026
Racing march on in the cup
Boston River are out and Racing go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad17 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.76 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Racing supporters have found a favourite in Iván Manzur
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Iván Manzur has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Agustín Kahl was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.82. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout17 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from Probiy for Nicolás Sosa 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ignacio Durante has agreed terms with Boston River for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Varese and Racing agree another 4 years.
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 Racing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Montevideo City Torque, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Varese, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Varela 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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.61, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.67 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
Racing say no — this time
The offer from LNZ for Iván Manzur was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guillermo Cotugno commits to Racing for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Racing
Guillermo Cotugno 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Bautista Tomatis’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Racing.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Bautista Tomatis has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Racing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Álex Vázquez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.