Marked for David González
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Teruel come back empty-handed
The 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Toluca is saying, and nobody at Burgos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Burgos
Curro 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Burgos asked and Atalanta said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Burgos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Gragera 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Manuel Moreno is in the works
Burgos have made the call to Veracruz. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at Burgos
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Cádiz in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Burgos have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ceuta have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about David González. The answer from Burgos has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Toluca 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Club America is saying, and nobody at Burgos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David González commits to Burgos for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Burgos
Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oihan Guerrero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateo Cabrera 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Burgos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Curro signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Curro commits to Burgos for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Burgos
Curro 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Porto have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Leganés have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Brais Martínez. The answer from Burgos has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Burgos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and José Gragera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Curro's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Morón 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Club America 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.