Jack Jackson

Left Back - Free Agent
17 Jun 2035
Sunday
Process

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392 Edition

The Hayq Courier

30 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

André Paulo 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 The request is on a desk at Hayq, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at Hayq

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ioannis Torosidis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Hayq

André Paulo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Hayq try to borrow Joel Kerr

Andranik have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Hayq ask about Jasper De Roon

A loan enquiry to Ararat-Armenia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Dawid Zalewski is in the works

Hayq have made the call to Ararat-Armenia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

No hiding place for Richard Garayev

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

Market

Akim Belokhonov linked with a move away

The name of Akim Belokhonov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hayq say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Nicolas Castillo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nicolas Castillo is on it.

In brief

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The Hayq Courier

26 Sep 2033
From our football correspondent Triumph

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Hayq boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Akim Belokhonov

31 goals and a season average of 7.32 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Davit Davtyan keeps Hayq in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Nobody wants to play Hayq right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Hayq

André Paulo 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.

Squad

Antoni Franke arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Antoni Franke has, at Hayq, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match

Hayq get the job done against Gandzasar

A 2‑1 win over Gandzasar, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Harry Leigh at his very best

Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hayq.

The dugout

Otávio 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.

In brief