The Vélez Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
A one-man rearguard from Lukas Ramil Sauer
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Feb 2028
Aarón Quiros wants more than Vélez are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Still nobody in the Vélez dugout
37 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Michael Santos signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Santos commits to Vélez for another 2 years.
Market7 Feb 2028
Valentino Molina is a Vélez player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market7 Feb 2028
Iván Gómez comes home
The shirt still fits. Iván Gómez is back at Vélez, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market7 Feb 2028
Nicolás Moretti is a Vélez player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Joaquín García
“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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Honours even between Vélez and Instituto
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Squad Lukas Ramil Sauer knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Alex Verón
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Elías Cabrera