David León

Left Wingback - Cádiz
30 Jan 2036
Wednesday
Process

Marked for David León

472 Edition

The Cádiz Herald

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Oleksandr Feshchenko has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Words at Cádiz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ritsu Doan 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.

Squad

Real improvement from David León at Cádiz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David León is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Darwin Balanta

“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.

Market

The Pau Navarro story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pau Navarro signs something — a contract at Cádiz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

When it matters, Emircan Gürlük 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.

In brief

Back issues
466 Edition

The Cádiz Herald

2 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Cádiz go down

It is arithmetic now, and the arithmetic is done. A summer of hard questions starts early at Cádiz, and next season's fixture list reads very differently.

Squad

A fracture rules Pol Esteban out for 38 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cádiz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Jules Kalczynski hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cádiz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Darwin Balanta says Cádiz went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Bojan Kovačević in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cádiz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Javi Castro 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.

In brief

418 Edition

The Valencia Herald

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Valencia has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market

Marko Rebic asks to leave Valencia

“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.

Squad

Arnaut Danjuma in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Valencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Marko Rebic at Valencia

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marko Rebic is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Valencia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor San Bartolomé 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.

Squad

Trey Ogunsuyi 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.

In brief