The Vélez Gazette
Market10 Sep 2029
Lucas Meuli puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vélez, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Words at Vélez training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Pozzo 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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Vélez lose Sebastián Luna
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at Vélez
Lautaro Piola 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.
Market10 Sep 2029
Tomás Cavanagh told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Tomás Cavanagh has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Vélez.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
When it matters, Maximiliano Porcel plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Vélez keep their word to Benjamín Bosch
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
Federico Pérez 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 Vélez, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
The manager makes Gustavo Assunção a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vélez. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Loan watch Nobody is winning from the Kevin Maidana loan
- Squad Lucas Meuli wants to know why he earns less
- Looking ahead An away day at Instituto next for Vélez