The Málaga Gazette
Market14 Jun 2027
Not going: Adrián Niño stays at Málaga
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Villarreal had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Too dear: Málaga walk away from Ousmane Camara
$15.3M was the most the club would pay and Castellón were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Agustín Sienra is a medical away from Málaga
The deal with Castellón is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The step up is real for Jacopo Sassi
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Valentín Delfino arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Valentín Delfino has, at Málaga, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Carlos Puga stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Carlos Puga and Málaga agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Málaga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Calero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Málaga rebuffed over Loren Morón
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aris Thessaloniki have kept their man, and Málaga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Carlos Puga 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
- The dugout Alfonso Herrero has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Carlos Puga's mistake
- Loan watch Gijón cannot leave Rafita out