The Elche Chronicle
Market7 Sep 2026
Germán Valera asks to leave Elche
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Elche sell Yago Santiago for $7.7M
Yago Santiago has left for Granada in a $7.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 18 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Elche 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Too dear: Elche walk away from Nelson Deossa
$2.0M was the most the club would pay and Betis were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Elche go back to the board over Toni Fuidias
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $540.0K — a club that wants Toni Fuidias enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
An offer of $520.0K for Toni Fuidias
Elche have gone to Girona 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Almagro tell Elche: Joel Orlando 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kevin Lomónaco slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Kevin Lomónaco is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dean Huijsen: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Elche will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Dean Huijsen
- Squad A promotion for Dean Huijsen
- The dugout Alejandro Iturbe knocks on the manager’s door