Leonel Moya

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Progreso
22 Dec 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonel Moya

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The Progreso Post

9 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alejandro García

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Progreso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Santiago Sequeira is a medical away from Progreso

The deal with Central Espanol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Marco Saravia has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Progreso can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Vicenzo Macchia rejects the move

Progreso had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Liverpool Montevideo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Progreso

Facundo de León 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.

Squad

Emiliano Álvarez 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.

Boardroom

Progreso beat the market to Agustín Miranda from Wanderers

Wanderers will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Agustín Miranda has pre-agreed a move to Progreso, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Progreso ask about Joel Erlinch

A loan enquiry to River Plate: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Emiliano Álvarez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Progreso 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.

In brief

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153 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Accrington Stanley board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

Matt Macey breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Terms done: Luca Williams-Barnett is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and West Ham United waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Accrington Stanley is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Accrington Stanley spell it out for David Atkinson

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. David Atkinson has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

The Accrington Stanley board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

The dugout

Junior Paredes says Accrington Stanley 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.

Squad

At 20, Luca Williams-Barnett is already the best thing here

An average of 7.41 in a first team he is several years too young for. Accrington Stanley have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Squad

Stephen Mfuni is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Leonel Moya 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 Accrington Stanley, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief