The Potencia Post
Squad5 Feb 2029
A move Joaquín Morrone would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Joaquín Morrone is living that version at Potencia, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Lukas König 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 Potencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
The owner puts $104.4K into Potencia
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at Potencia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Morrone 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.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
Lautaro de León back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Potencia has worked with Lautaro de León before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
The manager makes an example of Lucas Peña
“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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
This league is too small for Joaquín Morrone
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Potencia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
The dugout5 Feb 2029
When it matters, Lukas König 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
Still no ink between Potencia and Lautaro de León
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Potencia, another week without a signature from Lautaro de León.
In brief
- The dugout Lautaro de León knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The shop window has Hugo Rodríguez in it
- Market Potencia shop where it costs nothing