Cristopher Nova

Attacking Midfielder (R) - San Martín de Burzaco
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Marked for Cristopher Nova

79 Edition

The San Martín de Burzaco Chronicle

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Jan 2028

47 days out for Emanuel Zagert after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. San Martín de Burzaco will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market31 Jan 2028

Richard Lazarev puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Martín de Burzaco, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Words exchanged at San Martín de Burzaco

Ignacio Serpa 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Words at San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Soares 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.

Boardroom31 Jan 2028

Belts tighten at San Martín de Burzaco

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

Emanuel Zagert 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 San Martín de Burzaco, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

David Soria has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at San Martín de Burzaco 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.

Squad31 Jan 2028

No place for Cristopher Nova in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation San Martín de Burzaco are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market31 Jan 2028

The Rodrigo Velázquez story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rodrigo Velázquez signs something — a contract at San Martín de Burzaco or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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78 Edition

The San Martín de Burzaco Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Emanuel Zagert out for 54 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason San Martín de Burzaco will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market24 Jan 2028

Ignacio Serpa is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at San Martín de Burzaco is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom24 Jan 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at San Martín de Burzaco

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market24 Jan 2028

Fabián Sánchez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at San Martín de Burzaco

Ignacio Serpa 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

A move Cristopher Nova 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. Cristopher Nova is living that version at San Martín de Burzaco, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Words at San Martín de Burzaco training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Soares 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.

Boardroom24 Jan 2028

Wages swallow 105% of the San Martín de Burzaco income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Market24 Jan 2028

San Martín de Burzaco sign Cristopher Nova, one for the future

Cristopher Nova is 19, and San Martín de Burzaco have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief