Jonathan Hall

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815 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

10 Mar 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Mar 2042

Cibalia are in real trouble now

Position 8, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market10 Mar 2042

Only the photograph left for Mikael Krafth

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikael Krafth will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cibalia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad10 Mar 2042

Viktor Vitályos 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 Cibalia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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796 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

28 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Oct 2041

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

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

Boardroom28 Oct 2041

The scrutiny sharpens at Cibalia

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Cibalia is running low.

Market28 Oct 2041

Oliver Clark 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 Cibalia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Oct 2041

Jonathan Hall: 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.” Cibalia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad28 Oct 2041

Rafal Szymanski 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 Cibalia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Oct 2041

Francisco Machado 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.

Match26 Oct 2041

A bad afternoon for Cibalia against HNK Rijeka

0‑1 to HNK Rijeka, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad28 Oct 2041

The team sheet said everything about Ilyes Hamdia

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Ilyes Hamdia.

Market28 Oct 2041

The shop window has Mathias Ferrante in it

Cibalia have let the market know Mathias Ferrante can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

744 Edition

The Cibalia Chronicle

29 Oct 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Oct 2040

Yordan Bozhikov takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad29 Oct 2040

Jonathan Hall keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cibalia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match27 Oct 2040

Nobody wins at Cibalia

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match27 Oct 2040

Cibalia get the job done against NK Varazdin

A 4‑3 win over NK Varazdin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match27 Oct 2040

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Cibalia and NK Varazdin in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad29 Oct 2040

Words at Cibalia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Machado 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.

Boardroom29 Oct 2040

Wages eat 158% of everything Cibalia earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad29 Oct 2040

Tempers go at Cibalia

Mattia Macchi 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.

Boardroom29 Oct 2040

Cibalia cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

In brief