The San Miguel Gazette
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The San Miguel board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 196% of everything San Miguel earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Iván Ramírez
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Juan Manuel Lungarzo's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Market2 Nov 2026
Alexis Cruz placed on the list
San Miguel have made Alexis Cruz available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Dixon Rentería knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dixon Rentería trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Mateo Serra has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Miguel 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Damián Adín loses the armband
The captaincy has been taken off Damián Adín. San Miguel will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bruno Nasta takes the armband
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
In brief
- Squad The dugout calls for Bruno Nasta
- Squad Extra work for Tomás Jerez at San Miguel