Izei Solís

Left Midfielder - Eldense U18
12 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Izei Solís

112 Edition

The Eldense Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Match

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
111 Edition

The Eldense Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The terraces

Anger at Eldense spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

A fracture rules Izei Solís out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eldense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Marcos Olguín asks to leave Eldense

“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.

Squad

Iuri Tabatadze 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 Eldense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eldense may not be able to give Fernando Pacheco what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Pacheco wants continental football; whether Eldense can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Words at Eldense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vitor Mendes 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alejandro Marqués

Eldense asked and Tenerife said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Kyliann Fofana gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Floris Smand knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Floris Smand trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief