The Castellón Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jérémy Mellot stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jérémy Mellot and Castellón agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Castellón rebuffed over Matías Arezo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Penarol have kept their man, and Castellón go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Cacereño join the queue for Mamadou Traoré
Add another name to the list: Cacereño have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mamadou Traoré. The answer from Castellón has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
Castellón and Alberto Jiménez are talking past each other
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Jérémy Mellot's contract
24 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Castellón
11 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Castellón ask about Albion Rrahmani
A loan enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Castellón try to borrow Alberto Quiles
Tianjin Jinmen Tiger 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Castellón
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tincho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout Ousmane Camara knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Jérémy Mellot handed the armband