The Leones Gazette
Squad21 Aug 2028
The knee: Bryan Bentaberry out for 89 days
89 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Leones lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Andrés Monsalve has agreed to leave Leones for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Leones
Alfredo Medina 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.
Loan watch21 Aug 2028
Jeycob Zabaleta has seen enough of Fatih Karagumruk
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Leones, and 1 appearances in 28 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Leyner Palacios 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 Leones, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Aug 2028
Talks stall between Leones and Tomás Guimarey
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
A door opens for Santiago Martínez
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market21 Aug 2028
Still no signature from Andrés Monsalve
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Leones could get for him.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Leones keep producing them
20 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- Squad Lucas Elordi is settling
- The dugout The manager comes out for Tomás Guimarey
- Squad Nicolás Gil is out on the grass again