The Zamora Gazette
Market11 Aug 2031
Álbaro Polo asks to leave Zamora
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout11 Aug 2031
Helzon Pomozy: 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.” Zamora have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Aug 2031
Ángel Peréz has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zamora they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Aug 2031
A falling-out at Zamora
Edanyilber Navas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Words at Zamora training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Larotonda 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.
Boardroom11 Aug 2031
Zamora agree a free transfer for Manuel Sanhouse Jr.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Market11 Aug 2031
Zamora and Beycker Velásquez are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market11 Aug 2031
No place for Lorenzo Albano in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lorenzo Albano has his answer from Zamora; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout11 Aug 2031
Juan Augusto Pussetto has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Zamora will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout Luis Arango gets it from the manager
- The dugout Andres Otero knocks on the manager’s door
- Match Zamora in the hunt for Europe