Hugo Gil

Right Forward - Zaragoza U18
25 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Hugo Gil

64 Edition

The Zaragoza Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Miguel Morro keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zaragoza may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Zaragoza may not be able to give Álvaro Fidalgo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Álvaro Fidalgo wants continental football; whether Zaragoza can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match

The run is over for Zaragoza

6 matches without defeat, and then Cultural Leonesa. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Match

Cultural Leonesa take the points off Zaragoza

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Pau Sans

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Antonio Briseño gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Zaragoza dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Zaragoza keep their word to Lucas Bergström

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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Luken Cabrera left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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The Zaragoza Chronicle

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sergio Escudero out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zaragoza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Sergio Escudero asks to leave Zaragoza

“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

Eyes on Dani Gómez again

The phone has started ringing about Dani Gómez again, and this time the name on the line is Andorra. Zaragoza are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Zaragoza say no — this time

The offer from Zwolle for Sem Westerveld was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Adrián Liso stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrián Liso and Zaragoza agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Zaragoza rebuffed over Álex Petxarromán

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pau Sans

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

A row about effort at Zaragoza

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

Squad

A falling-out at Zaragoza

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

In brief