From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Vélez's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vélez has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Feb 2027
19 days out for Román Lozada after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market15 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Valentino Coria, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.49 on the card, and the Vélez support went home talking about one name.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jorge Peralta was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Vélez dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Match6 Feb 2027
9 matches without a win for Vélez
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Vélez are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
29 days out for Román Lozada after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Vélez
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benicio Correa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Godoy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastián Ortiz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benjamín Vidal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Dilan Godoy signs a new deal
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Late, late show earns Vélez a point
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
Román Lozada breaks a bone — 37 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Feb 2027
Vélez say no — this time
The offer from Málaga for Dilan Godoy 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad1 Feb 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Gómez 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
7 new faces, and Vélez 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vélez, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Jano Gordon 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 Jano Gordon is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
47 days out for Román Lozada after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Nosei commits to Vélez for another 5 years.
The dugout25 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 Rodrigo Aliendro has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Román Lozada breaks a bone — 55 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aaron Centurión, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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 Vélez will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout18 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.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
56 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Lisandro Magallán has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vélez 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vélez know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A new face in his position, and Emanuel Mammana suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Vélez have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market11 Jan 2027
Vélez have made Luciano Lollo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Jano Gordon 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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 Lisandro Magallán has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Vélez have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market4 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lisandro Magallán will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vélez the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Matías Pellegrini 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucio Valdez and Vélez agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Víctor Barrionuevo is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
When it matters, Jano Gordon 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Emanuel Mammana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vélez say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
Nacional come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vélez did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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 Vélez, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Dec 2026
Vélez spend $350.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $350.0K has been paid because Esteban Fernández is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Market28 Dec 2026
The paperwork is done: Nicolás Juárez joins from Sarmiento in a deal worth $390.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Gómez 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
8 new faces, and Vélez are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Tomás Marchiori has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vélez 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The formation has left Nicolás Juárez behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Vélez will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Rodrigo Aliendro out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vélez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Talleres waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vélez is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market21 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 targets21 Dec 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Sarmiento; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The fee is $240.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Barracas Central drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Vélez get their man
The chase for Damián Fernández ended with $190.0K changing hands and Rosario Central out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mateo Acuña pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
22 days out for Rodrigo Aliendro after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Vélez asked and Tigre said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets14 Dec 2026
Godoy Cruz wanted more than $790.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market14 Dec 2026
Vélez spend $200.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $200.0K has been paid because Alexis Dulón is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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 Dec 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Aliendro, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
No place for Alexis Dulón in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Vélez 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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Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vélez may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Claudio Baeza and Vélez agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Athletic Bilbao to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vélez and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Luciano Lollo
“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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Squad30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vélez may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Elías Gómez 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Tomás Marchiori has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vélez 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
47 days out for Rodrigo Aliendro after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Jano Gordon knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vélez, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout23 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 Lisandro Magallán has written the date down.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Aarón Quiros talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vélez know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Vélez told Claudio Baeza something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Vélez will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rodrigo Aliendro out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vélez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Jano Gordon 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 Jano Gordon is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Tomás Marchiori keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Vélez say nothing, which says plenty.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vélez, another week without a signature from Marcelo Camargo.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rodrigo Aliendro out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vélez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Defensa y Justicia will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Fernando Román has pre-agreed a move to Vélez, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Pellegrini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Vélez
Something was said to Emanuel Mammana and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luciano Lollo, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Tomás Marchiori has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vélez 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vélez, another week without a signature from Matías Pellegrini.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match24 Oct 2026
8 matches without a win for Vélez
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Vélez are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
Vélez cannot find the net
7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 new faces, and Vélez 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Jorge Peralta on the draw
“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.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Vélez
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Vélez are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
Vélez cannot find the net
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Dilan Godoy beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ulises Piedrabuena, and the manager let it.
Loan watch19 Oct 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 Vélez, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Rodrigo Aliendro out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vélez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matías Pellegrini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vélez the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Vélez's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vélez has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout12 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Vélez
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Vélez can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Central Córdoba SdE left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joaquín García and Vélez agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matías Pellegrini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Vélez
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Jano Gordon
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
107 days out for Rodrigo Aliendro after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vélez will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Vélez
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Vélez are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
55 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Vélez
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Vélez can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Godoy Cruz will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Leandro Quiroz has pre-agreed a move to Vélez, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Gómez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 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 Tomás Marchiori is on it.
In brief
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The dugout
Alexis Pereyra gets it from the manager
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Jano Gordon
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Rodrigo Aliendro out for 118 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vélez will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Vélez
A 0‑3 beating by Lanús was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Vélez's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vélez has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Vélez
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Inquest at Vélez
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch28 Sep 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 Vélez, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Jorge Peralta to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 125 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ulises Piedrabuena and Vélez agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Tigre will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Federico Álvarez has pre-agreed a move to Vélez, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Match19 Sep 2026
Platense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 133 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matías Pellegrini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vélez the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Elías Gómez 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Pellegrini, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vélez
5 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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Diego Valdés to Farense has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vélez with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The phone has started ringing about Álvaro Busso again, and this time the name on the line is Rotor. Vélez are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Aliendro, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Joaquín García
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Joaquín García has come out of that comparison in the side, and Vélez have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
10 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
Vélez bow out of the cup
Gimnasia y Esgrima go through and Vélez 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Aarón Quiros delivers — 7.88
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aarón Quiros scored, was marked 7.88, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Thiago Silvero has come up in conversations Vélez were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Defensa y Justicia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vélez will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
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Boardroom
Inquest at Vélez
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The dugout
Luciano Lollo gets it from the manager
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Facundo Sanguinetti: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Vélez
A 1‑1 win over Maipú, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Matías Arias, 19, steals the show — 7.97
Marked 7.97 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
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vélez
Tomás Marchiori 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Vélez and Gimnasia y Esgrima in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emanuel Mammana 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.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Vélez is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Matías Pellegrini has agreed terms with Racing Club for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad17 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matías Pellegrini 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Vélez 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Aaron Centurión
“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.
Market17 Aug 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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Gimnasia y Esgrima next, and one man in the Vélez dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad17 Aug 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 Vélez will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emanuel Mammana and Vélez agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Vélez
Emanuel Mammana 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Marcelo Torres has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Vélez have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Diego Valdés’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vélez.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomás Marchiori, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Pellegrini 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Ronaldo Martínez at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vélez.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tomás Nosei turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Vélez deserved better, and so did he.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Jorge Peralta could afford to be generous.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Vélez heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rodrigo Aliendro commits to Vélez for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Mammana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Newell's Old Boys made Vélez work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Jorge Peralta could afford to be generous.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emanuel Mammana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.