The Lugo Courier
Squad21 Aug 2028
81 days out for Aleksandar Radovanović after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lugo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Lugo agree $7.7M for Álvaro Fidalgo
The clubs have shaken hands with Betis; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market21 Aug 2028
Álex Gallar puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lugo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Lugo walk away from José Copete
$6.0M was the most the club would pay and Girona were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Lugo rebuffed over Arnaut Danjuma
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Valencia have kept their man, and Lugo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Lugo make their move for Andreas Christensen
$1.5M on the table at Barcelona. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Lugo
Alfonso Herrero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Lugo
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Lugo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leonardo Bittencourt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Market José Rey steps up from the Lugo academy
- Market Nicolás Herrero steps up from the Lugo academy
- Market One of our own: Pol Herrero joins the Lugo first team