The Central Espanol Gazette
Market11 Feb 2030
Santiago Colman is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Central Espanol is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Tempers go at Central Espanol
Thiago Nascente 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.
Market11 Feb 2030
Ignacio Rodríguez wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
Graduation day at Central Espanol
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market11 Feb 2030
One of our own: Alvaro Lopez joins the Central Espanol first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alvaro Lopez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2030
Daniel Pellistri steps up from the Central Espanol academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Pellistri has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Words at Central Espanol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luciano Squadrone 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 Feb 2030
A promise the Central Espanol board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Too much change too quickly at Central Espanol
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad Luciano Squadrone has outgrown this division
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Central Espanol
- The dugout Máximo Gómez Rosas has become a man the manager trusts