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88 Edition

The Cultural Leonesa Courier

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Apr 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mael Macía

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cultural Leonesa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Arnau Rafús keeps Cultural Leonesa in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings3 Apr 2028

Nothing got past Adrià Vilanova

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Market3 Apr 2028

Aarón Reartes has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cultural Leonesa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Cultural Leonesa

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Scott Bailey keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cultural Leonesa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Aarón Reartes signs for Espanyol while still at Cultural Leonesa

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Aarón Reartes has agreed terms with Espanyol for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Thiago Ojeda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cultural Leonesa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings3 Apr 2028

Ninety minutes of Iván Calero at his very best

Marked 9.47. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cultural Leonesa.

In brief

Back issues
78 Edition

The Cultural Leonesa Courier

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Jan 2028

Ángel Galván damages knee ligaments — 131 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market24 Jan 2028

Aarón Reartes asks to leave Cultural Leonesa

“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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Jamie Newton keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cultural Leonesa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market24 Jan 2028

Daniel Klein moves on

Mirandés pay $1.3M, 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Cultural Leonesa

Homam Ahmed 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 ratings24 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Thiago Ojeda

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Bicho

“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.

Match22 Jan 2028

Cultural Leonesa come up short against Córdoba

Córdoba left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch24 Jan 2028

Ibrahima Fall counts the days

“I watch every Cultural Leonesa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Atlético Madrid runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

54 Edition

The Newcastle United Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market9 Aug 2027

Levi Garcia wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Bruno Guimarães in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Miodrag Pivaš at Newcastle United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miodrag Pivaš is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Words at Newcastle United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joelinton 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.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Víctor Guzmán has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market9 Aug 2027

Newcastle United put Joelinton up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Joelinton may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief