The Korona Post
The dugout25 Feb 2030
André Oliveira keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Korona may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Words exchanged at Korona
Antoni Kozubal 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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Tamar Svetlin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets25 Feb 2030
Door shut on Dimitris Rallis
Korona asked and Legia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
The manager makes an example of Kuba Bochniarz
“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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Home is on Arthur Barbosa's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Korona are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad25 Feb 2030
Too much change too quickly at Korona
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
Pau Resta has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Korona will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout25 Feb 2030
Pau Resta asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Market Jakub Bielecki linked with a move away
- Market Pau Resta placed on the list
- Match Continental football is in reach for Korona