The Zamora Gazette
Match25 Oct 2027
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.
Market25 Oct 2027
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 The request is on a desk at Zamora, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Oct 2027
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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
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 dugout25 Oct 2027
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.
Market25 Oct 2027
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.
Market25 Oct 2027
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
- The dugout Máximo Núñez knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The penny has dropped for Wallace Yan
- The dugout Stiven Valencia keeps his manager's vote