49
Edition
The Haladas Chronicle
5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Botka
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Haladas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Harmony Okwumo 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Haladas
Aleksei Samoylov 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.
In brief
- Squad David Botka falls out with a teammate over standards
- Boardroom Intake day at the Haladas academy
- Market Haladas borrow André Rodrigues