Marked for Daniel Martínez
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match8 May 2032
1‑5 to Ibiza, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match8 May 2032
Roberto Herrero among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Roberto Herrero on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Teruel and Ibiza.
Squad10 May 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teruel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 May 2032
This is not rotation. Markus Rusek has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Teruel is pretending otherwise.
Squad10 May 2032
Juan Pedro Paiva 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.
The dugout10 May 2032
“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.
Boardroom10 May 2032
Doors closed at Teruel
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad10 May 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Martínez and Teruel agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom10 May 2032
Wages swallow 97% of the Teruel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Back issues
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Teruel can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
Crisis meeting at Teruel
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad8 Mar 2032
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teruel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match6 Mar 2032
Teruel cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Words at Teruel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pedro Paiva 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.
Match6 Mar 2032
0‑2 to Algeciras, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout8 Mar 2032
“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.
Squad8 Mar 2032
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Martínez and Teruel agree another 3 years.
The dugout8 Mar 2032
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom9 Jun 2031
Pressure builds in the Teruel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market9 Jun 2031
Teruel say no — this time
The offer from Persebaya for Enea Florio was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market9 Jun 2031
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Teruel have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2031
The deal with Lugo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2031
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Deportivo La Coruña is saying, and nobody at Teruel is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2031
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.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Words at Teruel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vicenzo Macchia 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.
Boardroom9 Jun 2031
Wages swallow 118% of the Teruel income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad9 Jun 2031
Tempers go at Teruel
Bohdan Karpyn 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.