The Puebla Chronicle
Squad5 Feb 2035
A fracture rules Emanuel Gularte out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Puebla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Feb 2035
Carlos Dos Santos damages knee ligaments — 103 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 103 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom5 Feb 2035
The scrutiny sharpens at Puebla
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Puebla is running low.
Market5 Feb 2035
Only the photograph left for William Barboza
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. William Barboza will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Puebla the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Feb 2035
6 matches without a win for Puebla
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Puebla are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Feb 2035
Raul Castillo stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Raul Castillo and Puebla agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Feb 2035
Iker Moreno 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 Puebla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Feb 2035
The goals have deserted Puebla
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Puebla can tell you which week it ends in.
Match3 Feb 2035
Queretaro take the points off Puebla
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
In brief
- Market Puebla sign Jonathan Herrera, one for the future
- Boardroom $4.1M taken back off the Puebla table
- Market 5 months and counting on Emiliano Villaseñor