Marked for Elseid Hysaj
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match23 Dec 2028
No end in sight to Pescara's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pescara has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Pescara
Riccardo Capellini and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Boschilia 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 dugout25 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Ryan Kent
“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.
Player ratings25 Dec 2028
The afternoon belonged to Elseid Hysaj
A mark of 7.43, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pescara, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Giulio Martini chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Baldovino Cimino dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Dec 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gastón Brugman and Pescara agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Riccardo Capellini 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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Boschilia 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.
Loan watch4 Dec 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pescara, and 0 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emil Audero, and the manager let it.
Match2 Dec 2028
Cosenza left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Nobody left the Pescara dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Giulio Martini after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
Elseid Hysaj dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match1 Nov 2028
Pescara march on in the cup
Benevento are out and Pescara go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pescara may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match4 Nov 2028
Still nobody has beaten Pescara
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Riccardo Capellini 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A row about effort at Pescara
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boschilia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
The manager makes an example of Gastón Brugman
“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.
Match4 Nov 2028
Ascoli made Pescara work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Iván López is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Pescara will try very hard not to make too much of it.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Pescara told Gianmarco Cangiano something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Giulio Martini has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Ryan Kent 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 Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elseid Hysaj and Pescara agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Bongani Kekana 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.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
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.
Market7 Aug 2028
The name of Angelo Talia has come up in conversations Pescara were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
The manager's exit leaves Emil Audero exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Emil Audero is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AC Milan keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Pescara offered $11.2M; Lazio said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market17 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pescara can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout17 Jul 2028
Davide Merola: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pescara have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
An offer of $3.5M for Simon Sohm
Pescara have gone to Fiorentina with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Avellino have kept their man, and Pescara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Jul 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pescara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market17 Jul 2028
Iván López is 20, and Pescara have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The terraces17 Jul 2028
The town asked, and Pescara paid $4.1M
Iván López was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $4.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
The offer went to Lazio this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
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.
Market26 Jun 2028
“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 Pescara, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Jun 2028
Pescara spend $2.7M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $2.7M has been paid because Filippo Faggi is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
$1.2M on the table at Venezia. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
$730.0K was the most the club would pay and Napoli were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A muscle injury sidelines Filippo Faggi for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Pescara will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The terraces26 Jun 2028
Pescara spend $2.7M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.7M for Filippo Faggi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Words at Pescara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bongani Kekana 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: AC Milan keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Match12 Jun 2028
The season ends: position 14 for Pescara
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 43 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Pescara have gone to Lazio with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
$4.6M on the table at Parma. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market12 Jun 2028
Pescara pay Casarano $2.7M for a proper upgrade
Casarano did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $2.7M for Borna Knezović, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Pescara still without a manager
42 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Pescara know it.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
$120.0K on the table at Lazio. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
In brief
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Market
Business is business: Filippo Pellacani goes
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The terraces
Pescara spend $2.7M on the signing the town wanted
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Squad
Boschilia falls out with a teammate over standards
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market14 Feb 2028
“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 Lazio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Feb 2028
Lazio say no — this time
The offer from Stade Rennais for Edoardo Motta 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Elseid Hysaj had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Lazio offered $6.6M; Catanzaro said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
The clock did what Catanzaro would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market14 Feb 2028
The deal that would have taken Lucas Da Cunha to AC Milan has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Lazio with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match12 Feb 2028
Whatever happens, Lazio do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Lazio, and 0 appearances in 36 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Lazio
Boulaye Dia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market7 Feb 2028
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market7 Feb 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lazio people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
$6.6M on the table at Catanzaro. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
The clock did what Catanzaro would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market7 Feb 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
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.
Market7 Feb 2028
The phone has started ringing about Edoardo Motta again, and this time the name on the line is Stade Rennais. Lazio are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Lazio close the window on a squad of their own making
5 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mattia Zaccagni and Lazio agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom31 May 2027
Continental nights are coming to Lazio
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
Match26 May 2027
Lazio out of the cup
Juventus ended it 2‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.48 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Lazio
Ivan Toney and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 May 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Lazio and Juventus, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Yahia Fofana
“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.
Market31 May 2027
Elseid Hysaj comes back from a loan that worked
17 appearances and 0 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Alessio Romagnoli's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout31 May 2027
The team sheet said everything about Danilho Doekhi
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Danilho Doekhi.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match24 May 2027
Cartagena are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 70 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market24 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 May 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Cartagena will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad24 May 2027
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Lucho García, on 27 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
Squad24 May 2027
Elseid Hysaj 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.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Kike Gómez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cartagena 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Miguel Jacquet has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match17 May 2027
Cartagena finish in position 2
70 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Ander Martín beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, Cartagena do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad17 May 2027
Elseid Hysaj 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.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Cartagena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Loizos Loizou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 May 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Ander Martín for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Cartagena will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout17 May 2027
Andrés Sosa: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout17 May 2027
Nobody at Cartagena is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad10 May 2027
Saba Sazonov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Cartagena
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Cartagena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elseid Hysaj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match8 May 2027
Three points for Cartagena, 1‑0 the final word against Teruel in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Looking ahead10 May 2027
Top-of-the-table clash for Cartagena
Antequera next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
The dugout10 May 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Aridane Hernández will call it something else in private.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Belezi, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.73 on the card, and the Cartagena support went home talking about one name.
The dugout10 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Andrés Sosa, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 May 2027
Saba Sazonov 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 Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 May 2027
Elseid Hysaj 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.
Squad3 May 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Cartagena are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings3 May 2027
The afternoon belonged to Elseid Hysaj
A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad3 May 2027
Elseid Hysaj named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Elseid Hysaj is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kike Gómez, and the manager let it.
The dugout3 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout3 May 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Andrés Sosa after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout3 May 2027
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
Saba Sazonov 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Elseid Hysaj 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 terraces19 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Loizos Loizou has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match17 Apr 2027
Tarazona made Cartagena work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Loizos Loizou was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes of Benito at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cartagena.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vinícius Peixoto, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andrés Sosa on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aridane Hernández trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Apr 2027
24 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Cartagena
Lucho García and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Cartagena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elseid Hysaj was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match10 Apr 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Benito. 1‑0 against Atlético Madrileño, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
One of those days for Benito
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo De Blasis, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Too much change too quickly at Cartagena
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Andrés Sosa could afford to be generous.
Market12 Apr 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.