Sergio Cano

Left Wingback - Standard Liege
5 Aug 2043
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Marked for Sergio Cano

879 Edition

The Standard Liege Gazette

1 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match1 Jun 2043

Standard Liege are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 71 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market1 Jun 2043

Anísio Cabral hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Standard Liege can pretend not to have heard.

Market1 Jun 2043

August De Wannemacker wants more than Standard Liege are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad1 Jun 2043

Tempers go at Standard Liege

Anísio Cabral 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.

Boardroom1 Jun 2043

Standard Liege to lose Bruno De Luca for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Bruno De Luca has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad1 Jun 2043

Toby Fellaini signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Toby Fellaini and Standard Liege agree another 4 years.

Squad1 Jun 2043

A move Sergio Cano would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sergio Cano is living that version at Standard Liege, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad1 Jun 2043

Tiago Rodrigues 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.

Boardroom1 Jun 2043

Standard Liege beat the market to Rémi Baron from Club Brugge

Club Brugge will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Rémi Baron has pre-agreed a move to Standard Liege, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

Back issues
832 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

7 Jul 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jul 2042

Ilyas Ansah breaks a bone — 77 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Jul 2042

Thomas Otto damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.

Squad7 Jul 2042

Tempers go at Union Berlin

Ilyas Ansah 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.

Squad7 Jul 2042

Faik Sakar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Faik Sakar and Union Berlin agree another 2 years.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

Union Berlin agree a free transfer for Pavlos Tsaramanidis

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Boardroom7 Jul 2042

Union Berlin sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

In brief

816 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

17 Mar 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Mar 2042

Samuele Vignato breaks a bone — 106 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings17 Mar 2042

A defender's goal wins it for Union Berlin — 7.72

1 for Leopold Querfeld, marked 7.72, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad17 Mar 2042

Malik Pimpong 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Mar 2042

Lorenzo Del Pino is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Union Berlin is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match15 Mar 2042

Union Berlin see off FC Augsburg

Three points for Union Berlin, 3‑2 the final word against FC Augsburg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad17 Mar 2042

Vincent Müller 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 terraces17 Mar 2042

The crowd has taken to Sergio Cano

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings17 Mar 2042

Nobody could get near Ilyas Ansah

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings17 Mar 2042

A masterclass from Sergio Cano

Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

815 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

10 Mar 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Mar 2042

Samuele Vignato breaks a bone — 113 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings10 Mar 2042

Malik Pimpong, 34, rolls back the years — 7.80

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad10 Mar 2042

Malik Pimpong is carrying Union Berlin

20 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad10 Mar 2042

Ilyas Ansah 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Mar 2042

4 matches without a win for Union Berlin

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Union Berlin are no longer polite ones.

Squad10 Mar 2042

The manager makes an example of Vincent Müller

“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.

Match8 Mar 2042

Union Berlin and TSG Hoffenheim take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings10 Mar 2042

Nobody could get near Sergio Cano

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom10 Mar 2042

Union Berlin keep producing them

127 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief