Nicolás Afonso

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Deportivo La Coruña
10 Nov 2032
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Marked for Nicolás Afonso

259 Edition

The Deportivo La Coruña Sentinel

14 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets14 Jul 2031

Door shut on Amir Saipi

Deportivo La Coruña asked and Real Sociedad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market14 Jul 2031

Caín Fara has one foot out of the door

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

Boardroom14 Jul 2031

Caín Fara has agreed to leave Deportivo La Coruña for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad14 Jul 2031

A falling-out at Deportivo La Coruña

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

Squad14 Jul 2031

Nicolás Afonso has improved at 24, 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.

Squad14 Jul 2031

Words at Deportivo La Coruña training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Caín Fara 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 targets14 Jul 2031

Deportivo La Coruña try to borrow Maxence Soulet

Clermont Foot have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout14 Jul 2031

Fernando Álvarez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market14 Jul 2031

No place for Nehemías Almaraz in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nehemías Almaraz has his answer from Deportivo La Coruña; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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253 Edition

The Deportivo La Coruña Sentinel

2 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings2 Jun 2031

Lorenzo Amatucci beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings2 Jun 2031

No sign of nerves from Fernando Álvarez at 21 — 8.03

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fernando Álvarez did not need any: 8.03, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market2 Jun 2031

Matías Ledesma asks to leave Deportivo La Coruña

“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.

Player ratings2 Jun 2031

Age has not caught Adama Traoré yet — 7.87

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match31 May 2031

Nobody wants to play Deportivo La Coruña right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Words exchanged at Deportivo La Coruña

Adama Traoré 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.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Nicolás Afonso arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nicolás Afonso has, at Deportivo La Coruña, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Defences have started doubling up on David Mella

10 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match31 May 2031

Deportivo La Coruña get the job done against Mirandés

A 2‑1 win over Mirandés, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief