The Zaragoza Chronicle
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
The goals keep arriving from Pau Sans’s exile
22 goals in 27 games at Cracovia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Zaragoza updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Rubén Díez says Zaragoza 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Pablo Insua 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 Zaragoza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Nico Serrano was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market12 Apr 2027
Zaragoza promote Sergio Hernández from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergio Hernández has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Apr 2027
Zaragoza promote Luis Blanco from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Blanco has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match10 Apr 2027
Zaragoza come up short against Córdoba
Córdoba left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Leonel Miranda
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonel Miranda, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Aleksandar Radovanović 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
- The dugout Zaragoza keep their word to Fernando Tapia
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Zaragoza
- The dugout The manager’s verdict