The San Miguel Gazette
Match23 Oct 2028
San Miguel are in real trouble now
Position 16, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market23 Oct 2028
Only the photograph left for Mateo Serra
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mateo Serra will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around San Miguel the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Tempers go at San Miguel
Matías Benítez 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A row about effort at San Miguel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martín Guzmán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Tomás Jerez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at San Miguel will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market23 Oct 2028
The Tomás Jerez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. San Miguel know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Tomás Jerez has been promised minutes
- The dugout Rodrigo Dubó asks for a word with the manager
- Squad The training reports on Tano are not good
- Squad Bubu back in training