Rossi

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Girona
5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Rossi

5 Edition

The Girona Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Chumi

Girona and Almería have settled on $6.9M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Portu puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Girona, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Belgrano tell Girona: Juan Velázquez is not for sale

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Paulo Gazzaniga

“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.

Match

Valencia take the points off Girona

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Girona are still strangers to each other

10 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mario Montes left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

Rossi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Vladyslav Vanat called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Girona that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Girona Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

An offer of $75.0M for Dušan Vlahović

Girona have gone to Juventus with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Girona rebuffed over Jeremy Toljan

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

Match

Girona find a way past Athletic Bilbao

Athletic Bilbao made Girona work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Portu stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.67 on the card, and the Girona support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Bryan Gil beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Lucas Blanco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Blanco commits to Girona for another 4 years.

The dugout

Mario Montes has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mario Montes on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Oscar Barreto dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Bryan Gil

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Valencia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

2 Edition

The Girona Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$3.7M settles it between the clubs for Santiago Fernández

Talleres have accepted the money. What Girona do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

A move Oscar Barreto would have made for nothing

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

Squad

Bryan Gil stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bryan Gil and Girona agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vladyslav Vanat

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

Market

Víctor Romero steps up from the Girona academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Víctor Romero 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.

Market

Felipe Sánchez steps up from the Girona academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Felipe Sánchez 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.

Market

Girona promote José Moya from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. José Moya has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Jorge Herrero joins the Girona first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jorge Herrero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Portu in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Girona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • The dugout Bryan Gil knocks on the manager’s door
  • Squad No place for Rossi in the new shape
  • The terraces The spotlight tightens on Rossi