Josele

Goalkeeper - Tarazona
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Josele

24 Edition

The Tarazona Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ivan Guzmán breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Amigo asks to leave Tarazona

“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.

Player ratings

David Cubillas, 36, 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 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Josele: 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.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Jonathan Asp-Jensen

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tarazona have done the hard part with Deportivo La Coruña, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Match

7 unbeaten for Tarazona

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Tarazona did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Álvaro Jiménez 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 Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Mario Rivas

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Tarazona rebuffed over Nico Serrano

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Athletic Bilbao have kept their man, and Tarazona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Tarazona Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ivan Guzmán breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Josele

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Chechu 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 Tarazona can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Iker Piedra: 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.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Tarazona

Álvaro Jiménez 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tarazona

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.

Transfer targets

Tarazona rebuffed over Davo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ibiza have kept their man, and Tarazona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Blas Rolón

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

Squad

Javi Moreno 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.

In brief