The Burgos Courier
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Burgos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom5 Mar 2035
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market5 Mar 2035
Francisco Carrasco asks to leave Burgos
“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.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Ander Cantero signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ander Cantero commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Tempers go at Burgos
David González 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.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.
Match3 Mar 2035
Burgos come up short against Real Sociedad
Real Sociedad left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings5 Mar 2035
A masterclass from Ilyas Azizi
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Mar 2035
Henrique Trevisan wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Burgos know it.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Francisco Carrasco
- Market The Rhys Thomas story refuses to die
- Market Gonzalo Solís leaves for nothing