David Moreno

Right Forward - Zaragoza
1 May 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for David Moreno

155 Edition

The Zaragoza Chronicle

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sem Westerveld 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 The request is on a desk at Zaragoza, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Arouna Sanganté wants more than Zaragoza are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Zaragoza may not be able to give Samed Baždar what he wants

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

Squad

Tempers go at Zaragoza

Arouna Sanganté 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.

Squad

David Moreno is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A late step up for William Bianda

At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Zaragoza training over how hard people work
  • Market Real Sociedad are about to pick up the phone
Back issues
110 Edition

The Zaragoza Chronicle

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Adrián Liso 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

Lucas Boyé raises the bar for Zaragoza

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Zaragoza heard it as anything else.

Squad

David Moreno is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A move Manuel Esposito would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Manuel Esposito is living that version at Zaragoza, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Lucas Boyé falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Tempers go at Zaragoza

Pau Sans 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adrián Liso

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Zaragoza draw a blank against Castellón

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Castellón defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

The Adrián Liso talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zaragoza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief