Jonathan Asp-Jensen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi Moreno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tarazona will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tarazona have done the hard part with Las Palmas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Jonathan Asp-Jensen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toni Ramón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Tarazona will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tarazona scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jonathan Asp-Jensen did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at Tarazona until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Zamora paid $330.0K and Tarazona took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tarazona will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Álvaro Jiménez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Tarazona asked and Levante said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi Moreno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ourense CF waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tarazona is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The deal with Espanyol is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Tarazona asked and Sanluqueño said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toni Ramón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tarazona have done the hard part with Deportivo La Coruña, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Athletic Bilbao have kept their man, and Tarazona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tarazona can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Álvaro Jiménez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ibiza have kept their man, and Tarazona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Blas Rolón, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Javi Moreno falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tarazona will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.86 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Álvaro Jiménez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Toni Ramón is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Gonzalo Díaz kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for David Cubillas
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tarazona will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Manuel Insaurralde. 2‑1 against Cartagena, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Gonzalo Díaz kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tarazona will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Insaurralde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gonzalo Díaz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
8 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Eldense were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Álvaro Jiménez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jordi Martín falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tarazona will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Federico Gomes Gerth and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Insaurralde is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tarazona will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tarazona can tell you which week it ends in.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Insaurralde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tarazona will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi Moreno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Something was said to Manuel Insaurralde and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Federico Gomes Gerth was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.23 on the card, and the Tarazona support went home talking about one name.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gonzalo Díaz chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Federico Gomes Gerth and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Insaurralde is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tarazona can tell you which week it ends in.
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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tarazona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ángel López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gonzalo Díaz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Nobody at Tarazona is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Insaurralde is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Tarazona is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Álvaro Jiménez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Federico Gomes Gerth was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Insaurralde was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Everybody at Tarazona saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tarazona, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Federico Gomes Gerth and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
“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 Tarazona, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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.
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Julián Delmás has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gonzalo Díaz after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Gonzalo Díaz on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
The dugoutThe plan did not have a place for Blas Rolón
Marc Trilles and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Javi Moreno was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. CE Europa had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Tarazona asked and Villarreal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ángel López was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Tarazona know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugoutMarc Trilles is not enjoying his job description
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The Tarazona Courier
7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondentSteady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Tarazona close the window on a squad of their own making
26 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Diego Zalazar has just signed for Tarazona, and for once the answer mattered.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hércules have kept their man, and Tarazona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Javi Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tarazona are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sabadell in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Bautista Carrera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Toni Ramón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A loan enquiry to Unión de Santa Fe: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tarazona will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Tarazona have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Javi Moreno arrives from Albacete with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Guadalajara waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tarazona is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tarazona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Bautista Carrera and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Busi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tarazona are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Tarazona asked and Real Sociedad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Marc Trilles and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Tarazona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
AVS have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Tarazona are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Àlex Rubio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martí Cabrera is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cristian Muñoz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roberto Suárez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Tarazona asked and Huesca said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tarazona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadBusi falls out with a teammate over standards