The Sanluqueño Courier
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at Sanluqueño 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
Sanluqueño are in real trouble now
Position 18, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market4 Jan 2027
Kikín asks to leave Sanluqueño
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
6 saves: Pablo Barredo was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Asier Osambela
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Sanluqueño have done the hard part with Osasuna, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Rodrigo Rojas 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 Sanluqueño this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Sanluqueño beat the market to Vasco Sousa from Betis
Betis will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Vasco Sousa has pre-agreed a move to Sanluqueño, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tropi 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.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Pablo Barredo
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Sanluqueño see off Villarreal B
- Squad Ignacio Suárez out for 36 days
- Transfer targets Sanluqueño ask about Sergio Cubero