The Vélez Gazette
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Matías Arias: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vélez have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Vélez
Israel Reyes 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Elías Cabrera stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elías Cabrera and Vélez agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Jul 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
No place for Lucas Cornejo 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
When it matters, Aarón Quiros 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 dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Benjamín Bosch
“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 dugout12 Jul 2027
Elías Cabrera 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.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
6 goals on loan for Francisco Pozzo
21 appearances at Union La Calera and the goals keep coming. Vélez are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
In brief
- Market The Aarón Quiros story refuses to die
- Market Vélez send Lautaro Piola out for first-team football
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Talleres