Liam Moore

Left Back - Espanyol
19 Sep 2038
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The Espanyol Sentinel

11 May 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mark James keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tyrhys Dolan 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 Espanyol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Espanyol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar El Hilali 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.

In brief

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562 Edition

The Espanyol Sentinel

4 May 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ángel Fortuño

There were 9 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.

Squad

13 seasons of Omar El Hilali

531 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Espanyol know what they have.

Player ratings

Javi Hernàndez, 33, rolls back the years — 8.61

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.61 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Daniel Gutiérrez keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Javi Hernàndez is carrying Espanyol

14 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Real Sociedad take the points off Espanyol

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jofre Carreras

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Omar Sadik could have had three

12 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Market

The Pol Lozano talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Espanyol know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief