David Sadiq

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Durazno
17 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for David Sadiq

321 Edition

The Durazno Herald

20 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Durazno are top

39 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Squad

A falling-out at Durazno

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

Squad

Words at Durazno training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Cortés 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.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Durazno

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nahuel Silveira

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nahuel Silveira, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

124% of the income goes out in wages at Durazno

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

In brief

Back issues
314 Edition

The Durazno Herald

2 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Durazno

Ezequiel Cortés and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Nahuel Arébalo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nahuel Arébalo and Durazno agree another 4 years.

Boardroom

$473.1K from the owner keeps Durazno afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Transfer targets

Durazno rebuffed over Martin Rios

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

Market

Nobody at Durazno has picked up the phone to Kevin Suárez

12 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

A step back for Facundo Ferrari at Durazno

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.

Market

Durazno and Lucas Scarlatto are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Kevin Suárez knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Durazno, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

The formation has left David Sadiq behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Durazno will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

313 Edition

The Durazno Herald

26 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Nobody above Durazno

First, on 39 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market

Matias Fernandez asks to leave Durazno

“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.

Boardroom

Durazno close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 16 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Juan Manuel Nieto will not be coming to Durazno

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Fenix is saying, and nobody at Durazno is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

A falling-out at Durazno

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

Squad

David Sadiq gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. David Sadiq has just signed for Durazno, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at Durazno

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Joaquín Giudice

Durazno asked and Terremoto said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 155% of the Durazno 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.

In brief