Wendel Passos

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1 Oct 2029
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Process

Marked for Wendel Passos

162 Edition

The Getafe Post

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Michael Ortega out for 95 days

95 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Getafe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Sergio Martín has said yes to Najran

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Getafe have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Wendel Passos asks to leave Getafe

“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.

Match

No end in sight to Getafe's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Getafe has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

Clayton keeps the receipts

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

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 15 signed and 8 gone

That is the business done at Getafe until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Sem Pepers has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Getafe

David Soria and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Getafe

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johan Mojica was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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The Getafe Post

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Ortega

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

Squad

A fracture rules David Soria out for 59 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Getafe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gabriël Misehouy

Getafe asked and Girona 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 dugout

Salva Ruiz says Getafe went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Juan Bauzá is a medical away from Getafe

The deal with Cádiz is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Wendel Passos 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 Getafe can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Charalabos Erotokritou

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Charalabos Erotokritou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Getafe the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

David Soria 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 Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Álvaro Navoni

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

In brief