Johan Diaz

Right Back - Titanes Guanare
9 Nov 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Johan Diaz

156 Edition

The Titanes Guanare Sentinel

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

15 matches without a win for Titanes Guanare

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Titanes Guanare are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Anger at Titanes Guanare spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Titanes Guanare

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Joe Arreche damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 3 in, 10 out at Titanes Guanare

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Tempers go at Titanes Guanare

José Pinto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A move Johan Diaz 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. Johan Diaz is living that version at Titanes Guanare, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Titanes Guanare rebuffed over Carlos González

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. UCV have kept their man, and Titanes Guanare go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Monagas B take the points off Titanes Guanare

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

  • Boardroom 121% of the income goes out in wages at Titanes Guanare
  • The dugout No hiding place for Kleiver Rivero
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict