Marked for Alejandro Palop
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Crisis
Match27 Feb 2027
0‑3 to Gimnàstic, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules George Corral out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Teruel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Teruel boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Teruel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Teruel
Carlos Vigaray and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oriol Rosell and Teruel agree another 1 years.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Abraham Del Moral 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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
82 days out for George Corral after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Teruel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Teruel can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Teruel have done the hard part with Cádiz, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teruel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oriol Rosell and Teruel agree another 1 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Teruel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Vigaray was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match2 Jan 2027
Algeciras left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Jorge Paz
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jorge Paz, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules George Corral out for 159 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Teruel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Teruel's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teruel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Teruel
Domi Berlanga 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Joseda takes the honours
Marked 7.31 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Teruel had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 21 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Teruel 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Teruel
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marten-Chris Paalberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Teruel asked and Rosario Central said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Facu Ballardo deal
Teruel ran out of time with Pontevedra. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Teruel
Felipe Chéchile 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 targets7 Sep 2026
A loan enquiry to Castellón: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Iván Ramos is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Iván Ramos 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Relu’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Teruel needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Teruel have done the hard part with Pontevedra, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Gimnasia y Esgrima is saying, and nobody at Teruel is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Teruel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Chéchile 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Teruel
Relu 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No place for Marlon Faß in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Teruel are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Elche have kept their man, and Teruel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Teruel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Javi García behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Teruel will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Teruel
9 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ignacio Zambudio commits to Teruel for another 4 years.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at Teruel
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.