Eduardo Fernández

Goalkeeper - Guadalajara
4 Feb 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Eduardo Fernández

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The Guadalajara Herald

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Guadalajara's wait for a win

15 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Guadalajara has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

A hiding for Guadalajara

Beaten 0‑3 by Cultural Leonesa, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Mamadou Diawara 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 Guadalajara can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Eduardo Fernández: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Guadalajara have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Guadalajara cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Tempers go at Guadalajara

Marcos Baselga 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.

Transfer targets

Granada tell Guadalajara: Rubén Sierra 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Guadalajara

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Henrique Poniewas

“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.

In brief

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From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Miki

68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Guadalajara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A falling-out at Guadalajara

Kevin Cardozo 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 Guadalajara

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rubén Sierra

Guadalajara asked and Granada said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Henrique Poniewas knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Guadalajara, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Víctor Álvarez's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

This league is too small for Marcos Baselga

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Guadalajara will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Toño Calvo

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Pontevedra in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

The Amador Zarco question follows Guadalajara around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Amador Zarco’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief