Daniel Smith

Goalkeeper - Avangard
5 Aug 2043
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881 Edition

The Avangard Courier

15 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Jun 2043

A knee injury of the worst kind for Volodymyr Ozymai

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Avangard lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market15 Jun 2043

Rémi Gérard puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Avangard, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market15 Jun 2043

Daniel Maxim attracts admirers

The name of Daniel Maxim has come up in conversations Avangard were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad15 Jun 2043

Words at Avangard training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ante Bralić 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.

Boardroom15 Jun 2043

The Avangard debt reaches $11.2M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad15 Jun 2043

Lira 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 Avangard this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom15 Jun 2043

110% of the income goes out in wages at Avangard

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad15 Jun 2043

Daniel Smith has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Avangard know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market15 Jun 2043

Talks stall between Avangard and Daniel Smith

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

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The Sunderland Chronicle

12 Jan 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match10 Jan 2043

7 matches without a win for Sunderland

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Sunderland are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings12 Jan 2043

Mateus Mané, 35, rolls back the years — 8.27

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.27 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad12 Jan 2043

Habib Diarra 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.

Squad12 Jan 2043

Liam Smith signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liam Smith commits to Sunderland for another 3 years.

Squad12 Jan 2043

Tempers go at Sunderland

Caden Voice 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.

Squad12 Jan 2043

No hiding place for Caden Voice

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Caden Voice, and the manager let it.

Match10 Jan 2043

Sunderland share the spoils with Ipswich Town

A 1‑1 draw with Ipswich Town leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Market12 Jan 2043

The Chemsdine Talbi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Chemsdine Talbi signs something — a contract at Sunderland or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Player ratings12 Jan 2043

Nobody could get near Anas Alaoui

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief