Raúl Spallone

Defensive Midfielder - Zamora
2 Dec 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Raúl Spallone

65 Edition

The Zamora Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Zamora refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 56 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Sergio Sulbarán 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 The request is on a desk at Zamora, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luis Casimiro Peña

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Casimiro Peña will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zamora the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Zamora

Victor Hugo 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.

Squad

Words at Zamora training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anthonys Matos 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.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Nicol Martínez

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Zamora will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

When it matters, Marco Bustillo 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.

Market

Raúl Spallone told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Raúl Spallone has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zamora.

Market

The Beycker Velásquez question follows Zamora around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Beycker Velásquez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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The Zamora Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Yeferson Paz out for 104 days

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

Market

Beycker Velásquez is on his way

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

Squad

A row about effort at Zamora

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthonys Matos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of José Barragán

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Zamora

20 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

“I want to play”: José Sequera speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief