The Eldense Gazette
Squad18 Sep 2028
18 days out for Izei Solís after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Eldense will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market18 Sep 2028
Fernando Pacheco 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 Eldense can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
Alvin: 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.” Eldense have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at Eldense
Iuri Tabatadze and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Eldense
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vitor Mendes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Sep 2028
Huesca tell Eldense: Max Thompson 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.
Match16 Sep 2028
Eldense come up short against Marbella
Marbella left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Floris Smand
“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.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
Izei Ramírez answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
In brief
- Squad 6 new faces, and Eldense are still learning each other
- Player ratings Álvaro Djaló leaves them behind him
- The dugout Leonel Miranda does not fit this one