From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match14 Oct 2028
0-1 to Racing Santander , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Grego Sierra
“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.
Market16 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match7 Oct 2028
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4-1 against Real Sociedad B , and it could have been more.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Curro signs a new deal“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Curro commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Match7 Oct 2028
Burgos cannot stop winning3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Curro Curro signs a new deal
Squad9 Oct 2028
Luis Ruiz gets it from the manager“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.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Grego Sierra asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market9 Oct 2028
The name of Pablo Galdames keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
The terraces
The press have found their man in Curro
Squad
The manager comes out for Fer Niño
The terraces
The stand has a song for Fer Niño
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Oct 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Curro and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match30 Sep 2028
A 2-0 win over Valladolid , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad2 Oct 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Burgos have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 37 with 24 appearances behind him, and Burgos have to plan for both answers.
Market2 Oct 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match20 Sep 2028
Burgos out of the cupGijón ended it 0-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad25 Sep 2028
151 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market25 Sep 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for David González , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad25 Sep 2028
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match23 Sep 2028
Eibar made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Sep 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad18 Sep 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match16 Sep 2028
Cultural Leonesa made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tekio gets it from the manager“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.
Market18 Sep 2028
Diego Vianello is 20, and Burgos 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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Federico Guerra asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market18 Sep 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces18 Sep 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
The terraces18 Sep 2028
The press cannot get enough of Ander Cantero
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tekio says Burgos went back on their word“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Pablo Galdames
“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.
Market11 Sep 2028
Frosinone are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Burgos will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Tekio Tekio says Burgos went back on their word
Match9 Sep 2028
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market11 Sep 2028
Burgos bring in an old headLuis Ruiz is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market11 Sep 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad4 Sep 2028
Saúl Del Cerro : 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.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brian Oliván and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match2 Sep 2028
Huesca left with the points after a 2-4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market4 Sep 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Burgos have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Sep 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.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market4 Sep 2028
The name of David González keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Market4 Sep 2028
Burgos have made Konstantin Nikitenko available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Aug 2028
Three points for Burgos , 3-1 the final word against Leganés in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 62 days on the sidelines for Brian Fernández , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Ander Cantero lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Curro finally opens his accountHe wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Burgos have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market28 Aug 2028
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Curro
The terraces
Curro has his own song now
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market21 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Matías Vecino , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market21 Aug 2028
The shirt still fits. Vicente Carrasco is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market21 Aug 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market21 Aug 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match19 Aug 2028
Three points for Burgos , 3-2 the final word against Castellón in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brian Fernández and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Burgos board go back on their wordSomething was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
Squad21 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Josan Ferrández
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Brian Oliván , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Mateo Mejía
“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.
Market14 Aug 2028
Experience through the door at Burgos
Tekio arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The caretaker keeps it: Gabriel Moreno confirmed
A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Vecino commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Squad7 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.
Market7 Aug 2028
The name of David González keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Mateo Mejía asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market7 Aug 2028
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Jul 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
The medical room confirms 98 days on the sidelines for Brian Fernández , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad31 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Gomes
“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 Jul 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces31 Jul 2028
The stands have heard the Pablo Galdames talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Burgos would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Matías Vecino has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Matías Vecino keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Jul 2028
Brais Martínez : 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.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 Jul 2028
69 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Álex Lizancos and Burgos agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Fermín
“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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Jul 2028
Fermín says Burgos went back on their word“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fermín and Burgos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market17 Jul 2028
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Fermín Fermín says Burgos went back on their word
Market17 Jul 2028
Burgos bring in an old headJosan Ferrández is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Mariano Fazio
“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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateo Mejía commits to Burgos for another 4 years.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
Still nobody in the Burgos dugout
9 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Market10 Jul 2028
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Jul 2028
The name of David González keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Somebody is after Curro ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Curro suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saúl Del Cerro commits to Burgos for another 4 years.
Squad3 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Gomes
“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.
Market3 Jul 2028
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Jul 2028
Burgos bring in an old headFederico Guerra is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market3 Jul 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
$3.6M taken back off the Burgos table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
$652.2K a year onto the Burgos books
A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Burgos
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad26 Jun 2028
99 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market26 Jun 2028
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Jun 2028
The shirt still fits. Zinho Mertens is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad26 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Brais Martínez , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Mateo Mejía gets it from the manager“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
Crisis
Market19 Jun 2028
Preston come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“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.
Market19 Jun 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Curro Preston come back empty-handed
Squad19 Jun 2028
Mateo Mejía knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
The stands have heard the David González talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Burgos would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
Loan watch19 Jun 2028
22 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market12 Jun 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market12 Jun 2028
The fee is $1.6M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Ceuta drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Víctor Mollejo , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Fer Niño Burgos turn down Hamburger SV for Fer Niño
Squad12 Jun 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joshua Ajala and Burgos agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Darío gets it from the manager“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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A new face in his position, and Matías Vecino suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Sergio Giménez has until the next board meetingWhat was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Burgos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market5 Jun 2028
Fer Niño attracts admirersThe name of Fer Niño has come up in conversations Burgos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match3 Jun 2028
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Álex Lizancos
“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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
8 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
88% of the income goes out in wages at Burgos
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The armband comes off Fer Niño
Burgos will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Match3 Jun 2028
Burgos and Córdoba cancel each other outNil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Córdoba came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market5 Jun 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
Boardroom
$3.6M taken back off the Burgos table
The terraces
The stands have heard the Fer Niño talk too
Squad
Matías Vecino has company in his position
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom29 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad29 May 2028
The medical room confirms 130 days on the sidelines for Matías Vecino , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad29 May 2028
There were 6 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 May 2028
Levante left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad22 May 2028
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.35 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 May 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.
Curro Curro is in the form of his life
Squad22 May 2028
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Burgos lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Market22 May 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad22 May 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 Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 May 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad15 May 2028
53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad15 May 2028
Mateo Mejía gets it from the manager“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.
Squad15 May 2028
One booking too many, and Brian Oliván sits out. Burgos lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Match13 May 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Gijón defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market15 May 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad8 May 2028
There were 11 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.
Squad8 May 2028
Mateo Mejía : 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.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market8 May 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.
Squad8 May 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Grego Sierra and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match6 May 2028
Burgos get the job done against Eibar A 2-1 win over Eibar , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 May 2028
8 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom8 May 2028
90% of the income goes out in wages at Burgos
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Boardroom8 May 2028
$3.6M taken back off the Burgos table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market8 May 2028
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Gaoussou Fofana moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
In brief
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of David González
Boardroom
The Burgos production line keeps running
The terraces
Mateo Mejía has his own song now
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom1 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad1 May 2028
The medical room confirms 162 days on the sidelines for Matías Vecino , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market1 May 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.
Squad1 May 2028
10 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match29 Apr 2028
Beaten 2-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 May 2028
Grego Sierra gets it from the manager“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
Uneasy
Match22 Apr 2028
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Gomes
“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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.33 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Víctor Mollejo knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 Apr 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch24 Apr 2028
18 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match15 Apr 2028
Three points for Burgos , 2-1 the final word against Mirandés in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad17 Apr 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
A season average of 7.32 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch17 Apr 2028
“I did not go to Oviedo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Burgos and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 33 matches say the rest.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Ander Cantero asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market17 Apr 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Apr 2028
9 goals and a season average of 7.49. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match8 Apr 2028
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Brian Oliván gets it from the manager“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
Uneasy
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Market3 Apr 2028
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Match1 Apr 2028
Leganés made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Apr 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Ander Cantero . Burgos will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Darío gets it from the manager“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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Guilherme Gomes asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Mar 2028
Burgos sink to position 2031 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad27 Mar 2028
There were 6 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.
Match25 Mar 2028
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad27 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Grego Sierra
“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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
A season average of 7.28 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch27 Mar 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 Burgos , and 6 appearances in 37 say he has earned the hearing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market20 Mar 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.
Match18 Mar 2028
A 2-1 win over Andorra , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Mateo Mejía gets it from the manager“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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.34 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch20 Mar 2028
“I did not go to Oviedo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Burgos and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.
Market20 Mar 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
Squad
Gonzalo called up by his country
Squad
Joseph Mangondo asks for a word with the manager
The terraces
The press have found their man in Curro
The terraces
The stand has a song for Curro
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Mar 2028
9 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Mar 2028
There were 9 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.
Market13 Mar 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad13 Mar 2028
9 goals and a season average of 7.51. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom13 Mar 2028
Still nobody in the Burgos dugout
12 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
Squad13 Mar 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.
Match11 Mar 2028
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Mateo Mejía knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces13 Mar 2028
Everybody has an opinion about Joseph Mangondo
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Match4 Mar 2028
8 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Curro Curro signs a new deal
Squad6 Mar 2028
Curro signs a new deal“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Curro commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Loan watch6 Mar 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 Burgos , and 1 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad6 Mar 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Real Sociedad B defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Burgos pull $3.6M back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match28 Feb 2028
Burgos are in real trouble nowPosition 20, 26 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match26 Feb 2028
7 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Gonzalo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.49 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Brian Oliván gets it from the manager“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.
Loan watch28 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 Burgos , and 6 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.
Match26 Feb 2028
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market28 Feb 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Feb 2028
6 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Feb 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.
Loan watch21 Feb 2028
“I did not go to Oviedo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Burgos and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Match19 Feb 2028
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stan van Dillen and Burgos agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Feb 2028
Gloire Kanza is 19, and Burgos 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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
4 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market21 Feb 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Gonzalo has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Gonzalo keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
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Crisis
Squad14 Feb 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match12 Feb 2028
5 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Feb 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market14 Feb 2028
The shirt still fits. Rafael Cesário is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match12 Feb 2028
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Feb 2028
7 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Market14 Feb 2028
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match5 Feb 2028
4 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brian Oliván and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Feb 2028
The shirt still fits. Latufe Assoumani is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market7 Feb 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Loan watch7 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 Burgos , and 8 appearances in 33 say he has earned the hearing.
Market7 Feb 2028
Gaoussou Fofana is 19, and Burgos 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
He is 19, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Brais Martínez
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match31 Jan 2028
Burgos sink to position 2023 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Burgos
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market31 Jan 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Mateo Mejía
“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.
Loan watch31 Jan 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 Burgos , and 6 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.
Market31 Jan 2028
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Match29 Jan 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Huesca defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Grego Sierra knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market31 Jan 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Jan 2028
A hiding for Burgos
Beaten 1-4 by Almería , and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad24 Jan 2028
There were 7 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.
Market24 Jan 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.
Squad24 Jan 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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Loan watch24 Jan 2028
“I did not go to Oviedo to sit and watch. I want to come back to Burgos and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.27 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Grego Sierra asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market24 Jan 2028
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
The terraces
The press have found their man in Álex Sancris
Boardroom
Burgos keep producing them
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Jan 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Gonzalo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.43 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Gomes
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match8 Jan 2028
Córdoba made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcelo Expósito and Burgos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
5 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad10 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Sergio González
“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 terraces10 Jan 2028
The spotlight tightens on Mateo Mejía
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 Jan 2028
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.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Vecino commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Market3 Jan 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match1 Jan 2028
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Jan 2028
4 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market3 Jan 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mariano Fazio has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Burgos .
Market3 Jan 2028
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Marcelo Expósito asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Dec 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Vecino
“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.
Match25 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Burgos against Levante
0-2 to Levante , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
“I did not go to Waasland-Beveren to sit and watch. I want to come back to Burgos and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 24 matches say the rest.
Market27 Dec 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad27 Dec 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 Dec 2027
Burgos sink to position 2018 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market20 Dec 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.
Match18 Dec 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
3 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The terraces20 Dec 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
Squad
Joseph Mangondo asks for a word with the manager
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Gonzalo
Squad
Gonzalo keeps his manager's vote
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market13 Dec 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.
Match11 Dec 2027
Eibar made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Mateo Mejía
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match4 Dec 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Dec 2027
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad6 Dec 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.
Match4 Dec 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Ander Cantero asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Gonzalo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.22 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match27 Nov 2027
1-4 to Girona , and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match27 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
Nobody left the Burgos 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.
Loan watch29 Nov 2027
“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 Burgos , and 5 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
Market29 Nov 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Brian Fernández asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Curro scores at lastThe wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 3 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.
In brief
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Curro
Boardroom
The Burgos production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match22 Nov 2027
Burgos sink to position 2014 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match20 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Karim Boullif and Burgos agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match13 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Fer Niño
“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.
Market15 Nov 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Fer Niño The manager makes an example of Fer Niño
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
There were 9 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.
Match3 Nov 2027
The cup run ends for Burgos
0-4 against Atlético Madrid , and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market8 Nov 2027
The shirt still fits. Brando Mazzeo is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The medical room confirms 68 days on the sidelines for Kévin Appin , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad8 Nov 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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Match6 Nov 2027
A 1-1 draw with Leganés leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The terraces8 Nov 2027
The spotlight tightens on Curro
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Market8 Nov 2027
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad1 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market1 Nov 2027
Mariano Fazio 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Nov 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“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 Burgos , and 5 appearances in 16 say he has earned the hearing.
Match30 Oct 2027
Castellón left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Guilherme Gomes
“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.
Market1 Nov 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Oct 2027
The shirt still fits. Brando Mazzeo is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match23 Oct 2027
Three points for Burgos , 3-2 the final word against Andorra in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Aaron Bott
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Ander Cantero asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Burgos lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match16 Oct 2027
5 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Match16 Oct 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Matías Vecino knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Ander Cantero
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Fer Niño has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Fer Niño keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Oct 2027
4 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Oct 2027
97 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Víctor Mollejo commits to Burgos for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Grego Sierra and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match2 Oct 2027
A bad afternoon for Burgos against Zaragoza
1-2 to Zaragoza , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Mateo Mejía
“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.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“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 Burgos , and 5 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
Market4 Oct 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market4 Oct 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Marc Castells moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
There were 9 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
1-2 to Las Palmas , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Oliván
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad20 Sep 2027
There were 11 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.
Match15 Sep 2027
Burgos march on in the cupLevante are out and Burgos go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Fer Niño
“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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mariano Fazio and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match18 Sep 2027
Honours even between Burgos and Málaga
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
There were 12 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 126 days on the sidelines for Kévin Appin , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match11 Sep 2027
A 3-1 win over Albacete , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zinho Mertens commits to Burgos for another 1 years.
Market13 Sep 2027
Boavista are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Burgos will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
Market
Ander Cantero linked with a move away
Market
The window shut and Marc Castells is still in the building
The terraces
The press have found their man in Curro
The terraces
The stand has a song for Curro
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Sep 2027
Gonzalo says Burgos went back on their word“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market6 Sep 2027
Granada come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Matías Vecino
“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.
Gonzalo Gonzalo says Burgos went back on their word
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcelo Expósito commits to Burgos for another 3 years.
Match4 Sep 2027
Honours even between Burgos and Huesca
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market6 Sep 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market30 Aug 2027
Boavista come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match28 Aug 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market30 Aug 2027
Marc Castells is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Burgos has been clear about where Marc Castells stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Fermín
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Aug 2027
Fer Niño signs a new deal“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fer Niño commits to Burgos for another 5 years.
Market23 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Markel Sosa is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market23 Aug 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market23 Aug 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market23 Aug 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Burgos get the job done against Cádiz A 2-1 win over Cádiz , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Burgos have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Fernández
“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.
Curro Burgos turn down Getafe for Curro
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Saúl Del Cerro knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Aug 2027
Aaron Bott gets it from the manager“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.
Market9 Aug 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Aug 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Burgos pull $399.5K back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Aug 2027
Burgos have made Mariano Fazio available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Somebody is after Gonzalo ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Gonzalo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Sergio González asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad19 Jul 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Fernández
“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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Somebody is after Curro ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Curro suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Kévin Appin asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market12 Jul 2027
Eibar come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Aaron Bott gets it from the manager“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brian Oliván and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Sergio González
“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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Torres are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Burgos will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Burgos pull $399.5K back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Somebody is after Curro ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Curro suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market28 Jun 2027
Kévin Appin 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Curro has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Curro keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
Market28 Jun 2027
A season-long audition: Le Havre AC still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Burgos 's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Brian Fernández asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market28 Jun 2027
A season-long audition: Real Madrid still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Burgos 's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad21 Jun 2027
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market21 Jun 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Marc Castells may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
Aaron Bott gets it from the manager“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.
Market14 Jun 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market14 Jun 2027
Isaack Ahamadi is 20, and Burgos 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Experience through the door at Burgos
Matías Vecino arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market14 Jun 2027
The Fer Niño talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Curro has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Curro keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.42 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market7 Jun 2027
Jair Monteiro is 20, and Burgos 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mannou Berger
“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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Burgos and Córdoba cancel each other outNil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Córdoba came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Burgos pull $399.5K back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
There were 9 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.
Squad31 May 2027
25 goals and a season average of 7.42. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad31 May 2027
Aaron Bott left out for the big oneA player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Aaron Bott will call it something else in private.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom24 May 2027
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad24 May 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.41 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market24 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Burgos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Fer Niño Fer Niño is in the form of his life
Market24 May 2027
The shirt still fits. Carlo Evangelista is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match22 May 2027
Three points for Burgos , 3-2 the final word against Racing Santander in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad24 May 2027
Ander Cantero lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Marc Castells
“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.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Ander Cantero keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad24 May 2027
Kévin Appin asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
23 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad17 May 2027
There were 6 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.
Match15 May 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 May 2027
The shirt still fits. Jesaja Mustapha is back at Burgos , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 May 2027
Aaron Bott gets it from the manager“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.
Match15 May 2027
Burgos share the spoils with Gijón A 2-2 draw with Gijón leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 May 2027
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2027
9 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Fernández
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom3 May 2027
Jorge Sanz has until the next board meetingWhat was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Burgos can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad3 May 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.38 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match1 May 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Fer Niño Fer Niño is in the form of his life
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Market3 May 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The terraces3 May 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Ander Cantero
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
In brief
Boardroom
$399.5K taken back off the Burgos table
Squad
Fer Niño has company in his position
Squad
David González wants a proper job in this side
Boardroom
Burgos were not finished after all
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom26 Apr 2027
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.36 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Fer Niño Fer Niño is in the form of his life
Squad26 Apr 2027
Brais Martínez : 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.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market26 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Burgos is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match24 Apr 2027
Málaga left with the points after a 2-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
20 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match17 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match17 Apr 2027
Mirandés made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Curro has to sit this one outA booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Burgos lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Market19 Apr 2027
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
Squad
Grego Sierra has taken the shirt
The terraces
The press have found their man in Fer Niño
The terraces
The stand has a song for Curro
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
There were 12 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.38 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match3 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Match3 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
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.
Curro Curro is in the form of his life
Squad5 Apr 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.34 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Joshua Ajala
“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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Ander Cantero knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
In brief
Match
Burgos and Leganés take a point apiece
Boardroom
Burgos pull $399.5K back off the table
Squad
Curro unhappy with how he is being used
Boardroom
Burgos answer back
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Crisis
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Burgos
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market29 Mar 2027
Mario Cantero has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Burgos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match27 Mar 2027
No end in sight to Burgos 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.
Match27 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.26 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad29 Mar 2027
No place for Darío on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Burgos pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Crisis
Market22 Mar 2027
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.36 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Mar 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market22 Mar 2027
Fer Niño linked with a move awayThe name of Fer Niño keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Burgos say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The shirt belongs to Samuel Obeng now
At 29 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Burgos have a decision that made itself.
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Crisis
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Darío
“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.
Match13 Mar 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Granada defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad8 Mar 2027
There were 7 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Grego Sierra commits to Burgos for another 2 years.
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
“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 Burgos , and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.34 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market8 Mar 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.
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Crisis
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Burgos
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Mar 2027
18 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market1 Mar 2027
Mario Cantero has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Burgos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match27 Feb 2027
Three points for Burgos , 2-1 the final word against Valladolid in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Grego Sierra
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Burgos have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market1 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad1 Mar 2027
David González wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — David González has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Burgos know, and have known for weeks.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Burgos were not finished after allWritten off a fortnight ago, the squad has closed ranks and answered on the pitch. Something was said behind that door, and so far it is holding.
In brief
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Fer Niño
The terraces
Curro has his own song now
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 Feb 2027
6 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
99% of the income goes out in wages at Burgos
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.24 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Fernández
“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.
Match20 Feb 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Eibar defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Grego Sierra asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
There were 9 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
5 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Match13 Feb 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.32 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Curro Curro is in the form of his life
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Saúl Del Cerro
“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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Albacete will be the happier side with the point.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Burgos pull $399.5K back off the tableThe money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Burgos
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.39 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market1 Feb 2027
Mario Cantero has one foot out of the doorTerms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Burgos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Fer Niño Fer Niño is in the form of his life
Squad1 Feb 2027
Aaron Bott gets it from the manager“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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Burgos and Huesca take a point apieceIt finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market1 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Burgos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Ander Cantero
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Curro has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Curro keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Livorno come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Fer Niño gets it from the manager“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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 116% of everything Burgos earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ander Cantero lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Match16 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Burgos against Cádiz
0-1 to Cádiz , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Curro is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.28 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market18 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Burgos will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody is after Brian Oliván ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Brian Oliván suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Burgos have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Fer Niño takes the match ball home3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
16 goals and a season average of 7.42. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Fer Niño Fer Niño takes the match ball home
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Pressure builds in the Burgos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Fer Niño is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.35 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match2 Jan 2027
Andorra made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Fer Niño Fer Niño is in the form of his life
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Samuel Obeng
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
$399.5K taken back off the Burgos table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Javi Hervás is not saying it is over“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 38 with 0 appearances behind him, and Burgos have to plan for both answers.
Squad4 Jan 2027
David González wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — David González has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Burgos know, and have known for weeks.
Market4 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Mariano Fazio may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
Mannou Berger 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 Burgos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Brais Martínez : 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.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 2026
12 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Burgos , 2-1 the final word against Gijón in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Dec 2026
11 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ander Cantero
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
One booking too many, and Pablo Galdames sits out. Burgos lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Aaron Bott asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Curro
The terraces
Fer Niño has his own song now
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match12 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Burgos
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Burgos are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Burgos
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
10 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Joshua Ajala is 20, and Burgos 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Fer Niño has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Fer Niño keeps the shirt for now, at Burgos 's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 248% of everything Burgos earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Burgos and Málaga take a point apieceIt finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Kévin Appin
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1-1 draw with Mirandés leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Facinet Conté knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Kévin Appin The manager makes an example of Kévin Appin