Mateo Serrano

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20 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mateo Serrano

57 Edition

The Huesca Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Juan Pablo Barinaga wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A falling-out at Huesca

Isi Palazón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Huesca

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Alaba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

A bad afternoon for Huesca against Albacete

0‑1 to Albacete, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

No place for Nicolás Salinas in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nicolás Salinas has his answer from Huesca; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Joaquín Zappacosta 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.

Player ratings

Isi Palazón runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Pablo Marín

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Huesca told Pablo Marín something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Huesca

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Mateo Serrano signs on for more
  • The dugout Julio Alonso asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
56 Edition

The Huesca Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Ricardo Díaz out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Huesca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Julio Alonso says Huesca 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.

Market

Leonel Álvarez asks to leave Huesca

“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

David Alaba 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 Huesca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Huesca

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

Juan Pablo Barinaga sends Huesca past Almería

It finished 3‑2, and it was Juan Pablo Barinaga’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Huesca.

Squad

A row about effort at Huesca

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Pablo Barinaga was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cristian Rivero

“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

Rubén Gallardo steps up from the Huesca academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rubén Gallardo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief