The Albion Sentinel
The terraces14 Jan 2030
The mood at Albion 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.
Match14 Jan 2030
Albion sink to position 13
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market14 Jan 2030
Joaquín Varela 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 The request is on a desk at Albion, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Jan 2030
Only the photograph left for Bautista Pérez del Castillo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bautista Pérez del Castillo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Albion the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Santiago Costa 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 Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Francisco Ginella 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
- Market A long bet from Albion on Johan Sanchez
- Squad No hiding place for Bautista Pérez del Castillo
- Squad Andrés Romero knocks on the manager's door
- Market Franco Abreu leaves for nothing