The Iguatu Post
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
Pressure builds in the Iguatu boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A fracture rules Valdo out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iguatu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Feb 2029
Martín Oñate asks to leave Iguatu
“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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Iguatu
Yan Victor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets19 Feb 2029
Iguatu rebuffed over Marcão
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Floresta have kept their man, and Iguatu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Pedro Silva falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Leonardo Maciel knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Iguatu, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Fabio González is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market19 Feb 2029
The Leonardo Maciel story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Leonardo Maciel signs something — a contract at Iguatu or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Market Iguatu put Facundo Guastavino up for sale
- Squad David Viana is not doing himself any favours
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Gabriel Dias