Daniel Ramirez

Right Back - Juan Aurich
24 Feb 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Daniel Ramirez

128 Edition

The Juan Aurich Courier

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Morales

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

The terraces

The mood at Juan Aurich has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Juan Aurich

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Juan Aurich is running low.

Boardroom

Juan Aurich spell it out for Interim Coach

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

Market

Alan Cantero has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Blas Cattaneo asks to leave Juan Aurich

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Javier Bustillos: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Juan Aurich have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words at Juan Aurich training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Cantero 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

Daniel Ramirez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Ramirez commits to Juan Aurich for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
127 Edition

The Juan Aurich Courier

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Juan Aurich say no — this time

The offer from Alianza Lima for Andy Polar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Christian Valladolid has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A move Teo Merlo 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. Teo Merlo is living that version at Juan Aurich, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Alan Cantero 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.

Market

Business is business: Angelo Campos goes

Universitario paid $160.0K and Juan Aurich took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

8 new faces, and Juan Aurich are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief