The Huesca Courier
Market30 Aug 2027
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
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.
Match28 Aug 2027
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.
Market30 Aug 2027
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 dugout30 Aug 2027
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 ratings30 Aug 2027
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 dugout30 Aug 2027
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
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