The Andorra Chronicle
Squad9 Aug 2027
Álex Calvo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Gustaf Nilsson 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 Andorra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Andorra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sergio Carreira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Andorra rebuffed over Natanael Hernández
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Castellón have kept their man, and Andorra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A late step up for Jesús Owono
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Andorra try to borrow Allen Obando
Inter Miami CF 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 dugout9 Aug 2027
When it matters, Pau López plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market9 Aug 2027
No place for Guido Nogar in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Guido Nogar has his answer from Andorra; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Álex Calvo has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Álex Calvo has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Andorra shop where it costs nothing
- Market Andorra and Tomás Prost are talking past each other
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Martí Vilà