Jon Vidal

Striker - Huesca
31 Oct 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jon Vidal

54 Edition

The Huesca Courier

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Saúl Del Cerro gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Saúl Del Cerro has just signed for Huesca, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

An offer of $480.0K for Manu Sánchez

Huesca have gone to Ceuta with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Tempers go at Huesca

Álvaro Mantilla 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Jon Vidal at Huesca

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jon Vidal is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Huesca training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cucho Hernández is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Cruzeiro tell Huesca: Matheus Cunha is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tabaré Benítez

“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

Brian Micceli is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Huesca has been clear about where Brian Micceli stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Daniel Luna gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniel Luna is on it.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Huesca Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Huesca 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.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Huesca boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Transfer targets

Huesca make their move for Natan

$21.0M on the table at Betis. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alejandro Cantero

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alejandro Cantero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Huesca the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

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Market

Eyes on Julio Alonso again

The phone has started ringing about Julio Alonso again, and this time the name on the line is Ferencvaros. Huesca are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Cristian Toledo 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

Huesca count the cost of losing Dani Jiménez

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Óscar Sielva 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.

In brief

24 Edition

The Huesca Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Huesca

14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets

$10.7M settles it between the clubs for Cucho Hernández

Betis have accepted the money. What Huesca do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Huesca

A 1‑4 beating by Cádiz was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Alejandro Cantero hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Huesca can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Dani Jiménez keeps Huesca in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Nea Salamis come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Huesca did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Lucas Cepeda is a medical away from Huesca

The deal with Elche is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Miguel Román will not be coming to Huesca

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Celta is saying, and nobody at Huesca is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Huesca

Óscar Sielva and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief