The Gimnasia Board, which led the club between 2022 and 2025, released a detailed statement taking stock of its leadership, admitting mistakes, explaining important decisions and thanking members, staff and athletes before concluding its institutional cycle.
In the message, the former management said: “We didn’t want to let the year end without saying goodbye and are doing so out of deep gratitude. These three years at the helm of the club were an intensive journey full of challenges, difficult decisions and also progress that makes us proud.”
One of the central points of the statement related to the last management semester, which caused concern in institutional life. In this context, they explained: “In the absence of a clear institutional and political future, we have not been able to advance any type of financing that would allow us to get through these months as we had gone through all the previous ones.” In this context, they also justified the decision not to part with part of Lescano’s transfer: “We decided not to sell 50% of Alan Lescano, although we knew that this transaction would have given us immediate financial security. We decided to give priority to the club’s sporting assets.”
The outgoing board acknowledged the impact of this situation internally and apologized: “We want to focus on something that is very important to us: the club’s employees and athletes as well as the service providers.”
Regarding the overall balance, they highlighted the goals they set when they took office: “When we took office, we proposed four very clear pillars: reduce debt, resolve as many ongoing legal disputes as possible, promote new infrastructure and modernize the training process for our players.” Regarding this path, they said: “Looking back today, we feel that this course has remained firm.”
They also highlighted the work in the training departments: “We have invested in our lower divisions like never before” and celebrated the sporting results: “This year 2025 has been the best year of the training departments in at least a decade in AFA tournaments, with a reserve once again as a protagonist.”
The statement dedicated a special section to the works and improvements in infrastructure as well as the decisions made for the partners, including staying at the Bosque Stadium, working on various venues and implementing self-management systems.
Finally, the previous leadership acknowledged the continuity of the new leadership in key areas and emphasized the importance of maintaining institutional policies over the long term: “This demonstrated that sustainable institutional policies are possible beyond the board.” The message ended with an emotional farewell: “We say goodbye with hearts full of pride and in the certainty that we have done our best.”
Gimnasia’s very harsh diagnosis: “Short-term debt exceeds 4,067 million pesos”
Three weeks after officially taking over the leadership of Gimnasia, the new board was led by Carlos Anacleto published an initial and penetrating diagnosis of the economic and financial situation in which the institution found itself following the outgoing management of Mariano Cowen.
In a statement addressed to members, the current leadership described a scenario of “extreme financial fragility”with a minimum availability of cash and commitments already taken on that severely affect the day-to-day functioning of the club.
As already explained, Gimnasia had little else at the time of the transfer of command $23 million in available casha figure considered insufficient to cover the running costs of an institution of the size of the Wolf. In addition, a significant portion of the future income for the 2026 financial year has already been used in advance.
Specifically, the new management reported income of approx $1.9 billionincluding advances on social contributions, television rights and an extraordinary loan, which seriously endangers the financial flow of the coming years.
The Board emphasized that, in this context, immediate and responsible decisions must be taken to ensure the operational continuity of the Club and to fulfill the obligations assumed. In this sense, Anacleto and his team assured that they are already working on a detailed economic report for each territory, which will be presented shortly.
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