Daniel Castillo

Right Midfielder - Albion
7 Nov 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Castillo

190 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

18 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Albion through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Paysandu FC, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Daniel Castillo could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.55

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.55, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lucas Cesano

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lucas Cesano will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Albion the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

Valentino Pieruccioni was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Albion

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

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Albion

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Match

Leandro Córdoba sends Albion past La Luz

It finished 2‑1, and it was Leandro Córdoba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Albion.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Felipe Agosto

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Federico Barrandeguy

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

In brief

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177 Edition

The Albion Sentinel

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Maykol Méndez asks to leave Albion

“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.

Market

Terms done: Bautista Pérez del Castillo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Los Halcones waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Albion is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Lucas Cesano has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Albion they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Daniel Castillo gets the move he always wanted

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

Transfer targets

Albion rebuffed over Delfor Minervino

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Albion

Rodrigo Viera 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

A row about effort at Albion

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

Market

Federico Puente told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Federico Puente has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Albion.

Squad

This league is too small for Nicolás Fernández

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Albion will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief