Álex Serra

Central Defender - Eldense
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Álex Serra

47 Edition

The Eldense Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

132 days out for Dario Đumić after a fracture

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

Market

Eldense turn down Granada for Guille Macho

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

Market

Álex Serra asks to leave Eldense

“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.

The dugout

Boston Billups says Eldense went back on their word

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Rubén Quintanilla 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 Eldense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Floris Smand again

The phone has started ringing about Floris Smand again, and this time the name on the line is Gijón. Eldense are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

Uriel Iehara 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.

The dugout

David Sotelo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Sotelo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
38 Edition

The Eldense Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Eldense make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Eldense have 5 straight wins of it.

The dugout

Álex Serra keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Eldense may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

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.

Match

Eldense see off Ibiza

Three points for Eldense, 3‑2 the final word against Ibiza in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Rubén Quintanilla 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 Eldense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Fidel Chaves 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Eldense. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Player ratings

Rubén Quintanilla was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

Player ratings

Taisei Miyashiro stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Eldense support went home talking about one name.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Aleix Febas's mistake
  • Player ratings A costly moment from Aleix Febas
  • The dugout Julen Campos: “That is the standard”