Hodei Arrillaga

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Friday
Process

Marked for Hodei Arrillaga

77 Edition

The Eibar Herald

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Gaspar Iñíguez asks to leave Eibar

“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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Mamadou Traoré

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Eibar have done the hard part with Castellón, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Words exchanged at Eibar

Juan Bernat 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.

Market

Rayo Vallecano watching Hodei Arrillaga

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

Squad

Words at Eibar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleix Garrido 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.

Transfer targets

Eibar rebuffed over Amar Memić

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Eibar against Granada

0‑1 to Granada, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Unai Elgezabal 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.

Squad

No place for Javier Martínez in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Eibar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Eibar Herald

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Whatever happens, Eibar do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words exchanged at Eibar

Juan Bernat 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.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Jon Magunazelaia — 7.94

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.94 beside his name.

Squad

A row about effort at Eibar

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

Match

Late, late show earns Eibar a point

Minute 94, against Espanyol, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Market

Still no ink between Eibar and Unai Elgezabal

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Eibar, another week without a signature from Unai Elgezabal.

Match

Eibar share the spoils with Espanyol

A 2‑2 draw with Espanyol leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

No hiding place for Hodei Arrillaga

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hodei Arrillaga, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Aleix Garrido 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 Aleix Garrido trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

48 Edition

The Eibar Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

134 days out for Gastón Arraya after a fracture

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

Market

Jon Guruzeta 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 Eibar, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Imanol: 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.” Eibar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luis Soria

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

Market

Eibar sign Gonzalo Almenara for $760.0K

The paperwork is done: Gonzalo Almenara joins from Ceuta in a deal worth $760.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Juan Bernat 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 Eibar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Iván Gil has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Real improvement from Matías Scigliano at Eibar

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matías Scigliano is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

Javi Martón 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.

In brief

29 Edition

The Mirandés Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for Mirandés

A 0‑3 beating by Las Palmas was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

Tempers go at Mirandés

Álvaro Odriozola 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.

Squad

Thiago Helguera 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

Mirandés cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Igor Nikić

“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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Mirandés

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.

The dugout

Miguel Santiago answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Nico Serrano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The form table has caught Mauro Aguirre

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

13 Edition

The Mirandés Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mirandés's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mirandés has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Mirandés

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

Squad

A row about effort at Mirandés

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Mirandés against Córdoba

0‑1 to Córdoba, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Hodei Arrillaga 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.

Squad

24 new faces, and Mirandés are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Miguel Santiago answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Nicolás Gómez

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Player ratings

Javi Hernàndez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. 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