The Unionistas Post
Squad30 Aug 2027
The knee: Hugo Mallo out for 39 days
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Unionistas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market30 Aug 2027
Terms done: Lorenzo Gori is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Leixões waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Unionistas is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Juan Carlos Lescano frozen out at Unionistas
This is not rotation. Juan Carlos Lescano has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Unionistas is pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Unionistas
Juan Artola and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Unionistas
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Unionistas rebuffed over Pedrinho
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arouca have kept their man, and Unionistas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market30 Aug 2027
No place for Farru in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Farru has his answer from Unionistas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Alejandro Arana
“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.
Market30 Aug 2027
The Pol Tristán question follows Unionistas around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pol Tristán’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Lorenzo Gori has been promised minutes
- Squad Lorenzo Gori takes up the language
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Diego López