The Barakaldo Chronicle
Transfer targets23 Jul 2035
Roberto García due for a Barakaldo medical
Everything agreed with Burgos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad23 Jul 2035
A falling-out at Barakaldo
Alejandro Palop and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Words at Barakaldo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kwasi Sibo 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.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2035
Door shut on Carlos García
Barakaldo asked and Barcelona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout23 Jul 2035
The manager makes an example of José Otero
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2035
Barakaldo try to borrow Salvi Esquivel
Girona 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Luken Ramírez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luken Ramírez commits to Barakaldo for another 3 years.
Market23 Jul 2035
The Santino Quinteros story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Santino Quinteros signs something — a contract at Barakaldo or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout23 Jul 2035
Uwe Klein has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Barakaldo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Thiago Cialdella
- Market Edgar Segovia runs his contract down
- The dugout Jorge Flores asks for a word with the manager