Leonel Moya

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Central Norte
21 Aug 2028
Monday
Process
106 Edition

The Central Norte Courier

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Málaga come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Central Norte did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

6 matches without a win for Central Norte

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Central Norte are no longer polite ones.

Market

Pavel Fretes 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 Central Norte can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Leonel Moya has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Central Norte they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Francisco Borda signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Francisco Borda commits to Central Norte for another 4 years.

Squad

Mateo Fofre out for 32 days

The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Mateo Fofre, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Tiago Taobas

“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

Joaquín Mateo is carrying Central Norte

5 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Honours even between Central Norte and Morón

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
71 Edition

The Central Norte Courier

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Matías Moravec 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 Central Norte can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Central Norte lose Agustín Lamosa

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch

Juan Carabajal has seen enough of Lucko

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Central Norte, and 4 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Boardroom

Central Norte counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Central Norte now.

Squad

Gianluca Mancuso 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 Central Norte, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Francisco Borda linked with a move away

The name of Francisco Borda keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Central Norte say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

42 Edition

The Central Norte Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Central Norte's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Central Norte has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Leonel Moya says Central Norte went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Wages eat 187% of everything Central Norte earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Lucas Gaona gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Honours even between Central Norte and Chaco For Ever

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Francisco Borda 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 Central Norte, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief