The Huesca Courier
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Huesca run out of patience with the manager
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and the manager clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Dani Jiménez keeps Huesca in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market8 Feb 2027
Julio Alonso 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 Huesca can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Ibai Duran steps up at Huesca for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Jaime Seoane shuts the door
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Huesca
Sergi Enrich was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Angel Barreda would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Angel Barreda is living that version at Huesca, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Huesca training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaime Seoane 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Jesús Álvarez the difference as Huesca beat Cultural Leonesa
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesús Álvarez. 1‑0 against Cultural Leonesa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Jesús Álvarez
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Efe Aghama
- Player ratings Toni Abad was immovable