The Mallorca Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Barcelona come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mallorca did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Samú raises the bar for Mallorca
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Mallorca heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Samú signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samú commits to Mallorca for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sergi Darder 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 Mallorca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Torre 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Samú
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samú, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market No place for Jan Salas in the plan
- Market Nobody at Mallorca has picked up the phone to Johan Mojica
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Diego Oliveira