The Union Espanola Gazette
Market25 Jan 2027
Kevin Contreras hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Union Espanola can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Valentin Vidal 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Pablo Aránguiz 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 Union Espanola this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
San Marcos de Arica tell Union Espanola: Korben Rojas is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Cristián Rivera
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Union Espanola will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad25 Jan 2027
No place for Joaquín Obdrzalek in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Union Espanola are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Union Espanola training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Barreto 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan move for Maykon Jesus is in the works
Union Espanola have made the call to Atlético Mineiro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Union Espanola ask about Benjamín Rosales
A loan enquiry to Racing: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Rodrigo Alarcón plays
- The dugout Ignacio Núñez knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Union Espanola shop where it costs nothing