Antonio David

Defensive Midfielder - Cartagena
20 Sep 2028
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Marked for Antonio David

111 Edition

The Albacete Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market11 Sep 2028

Luuk Brouwers 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 The request is on a desk at Albacete, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market11 Sep 2028

The Arenas Club deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Diego Mariño reports back to Albacete with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad11 Sep 2028

A falling-out at Albacete

Antonio Puertas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Home is on Luuk Brouwers's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Albacete are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

The manager makes an example of José Carlos Lazo

“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.

Loan watch11 Sep 2028

Antonio David counts the days

“I watch every Albacete game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Cartagena runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Volodymyr Adamiuk signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Volodymyr Adamiuk commits to Albacete for another 2 years.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Álex Rubio knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout11 Sep 2028

Samuel Obeng back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Albacete has worked with Samuel Obeng before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

In brief

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105 Edition

The Albacete Herald

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Jul 2028

Jordi Escobar turns Stade Brestois down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Albacete

Lorenzo 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 targets31 Jul 2028

Door shut on Jiří Letáček

Albacete asked and Valladolid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Christian Saydee gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Albacete try to borrow Juanmi Latasa

Valladolid 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.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Carlos Neva gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Carlos Neva is on it.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Samuel Obeng back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Albacete has worked with Samuel Obeng before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

Market31 Jul 2028

Marcos Moreno placed on the list

Albacete have made Marcos Moreno available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market31 Jul 2028

Munir linked with a move away

The name of Munir keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

105 Edition

The Cartagena Sentinel

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 Jul 2028

Cartagena turn down Arenteiro for Pelayo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Cartagena bid $10.4M for Thalys

The offer went to Cacereño this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Cartagena bid $2.0M for Pau Martínez

The offer went to Gimnàstic this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Mérida tell Cartagena: Benjamín Borowik 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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Lucho García 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 Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Aleix Febas 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.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Nil Jiménez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nil Jiménez commits to Cartagena for another 2 years.

Transfer targets31 Jul 2028

Cartagena try to borrow Martín Soto

Huracán 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.

The dugout31 Jul 2028

Pelayo asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

104 Edition

The Cartagena Sentinel

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets24 Jul 2028

Cartagena rebuffed over Marcelo Torres

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

Transfer targets24 Jul 2028

Antonio David due for a Cartagena medical

Everything agreed with Albacete, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Words exchanged at Cartagena

Marcel Beifus 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.

Squad24 Jul 2028

A row about effort at Cartagena

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleix Febas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market24 Jul 2028

Gijón watching Nil Jiménez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cartagena have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

Lucho García gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market24 Jul 2028

Fabián Sánchez wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Cartagena are still strangers to each other

7 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.

Loan watch24 Jul 2028

Jon Lozano has seen enough of Hércules

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Cartagena, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

63 Edition

The Albacete Herald

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Oct 2027

48 days out for Antonio Pacheco after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Albacete will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Mario Soberón: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market11 Oct 2027

Samuel Obeng 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 Albacete, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market11 Oct 2027

Only the photograph left for Róber

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Róber will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Albacete the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market11 Oct 2027

Albacete promote Enrique Cabrera from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Enrique Cabrera 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.

Market11 Oct 2027

One of our own: Alejandro Vargas joins the Albacete first team

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

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Albacete

Antonio Samaniego 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.

Looking ahead11 Oct 2027

A reunion for Mario Soberón

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

The dugout11 Oct 2027

The manager makes Carlos Abad a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Albacete. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

42 Edition

The Real Murcia Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 May 2027

Ekain breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match17 May 2027

The season ends: position 14 for Real Murcia

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 42 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Player ratings17 May 2027

Tiziano Perrotta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90

A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad17 May 2027

Joel Roca 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 Real Murcia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout17 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Óscar Gil

“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.

Squad17 May 2027

A row about effort at Real Murcia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Flakus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match15 May 2027

Tiziano Perrotta rescues a point for Real Murcia

It needed Tiziano Perrotta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Eldense, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout17 May 2027

Ángel González is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings17 May 2027

Antonio David was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief