Pedro Ramallo

Goalkeeper - Albion
27 May 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Pedro Ramallo

39 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Álvaro López scores twice — 8.83

Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

6 saves: Pedro Ramallo was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Whatever happens, Albion do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

Álvaro López the difference as Albion beat Paysandu FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Álvaro López. 2‑1 against Paysandu FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match

Albion at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 2, 20 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Squad

A row about effort at Albion

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

Boardroom

Wages swallow 91% of the Albion 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.

The dugout

A satisfied Joaquin Mendez

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Joaquin Mendez could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Federico Puente is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Albion

Tomás Moschion and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Albion

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

The dugout

Agustín Pereira has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Albion 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

14 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Wages eat 141% of everything Albion 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

A row about effort at Albion

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

The dugout

Francisco Ginella 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.

Squad

Nicolás Lugano in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Talks stall between Albion and Francisco Ginella

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Hernán Toledo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Albion 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

10 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Federico Puente in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 171% of the Albion 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.

Squad

Words at Albion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baltasar Barcia 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 step back for Hernán Toledo at Albion

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout

When it matters, Hernán Toledo 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.

The dugout

Tobías Figueroa has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tobías Figueroa has written the date down.

Market

Still no signature from Francisco Ginella

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Albion could get for him.

The dugout

Pedro Ramallo asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Briam Acosta talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Albion know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief