The Elche Chronicle
Market2 Sep 2030
Fernando Miranda has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Elche they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market2 Sep 2030
Nikita Contini 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 The request is on a desk at Elche, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Sep 2030
Deadline passes with 32 signed and 23 gone
That is the business done at Elche until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Luca Orellano 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 Elche this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Leonel Sánchez is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Words at Elche training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fran Gámez 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.
Match31 Aug 2030
Liam Delap’s goal not enough for Elche
Liam Delap scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Real Madrid, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Late improvement for Tomas Altamirano
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Market2 Sep 2030
Still no ink between Elche and Adrián Marín
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Elche, another week without a signature from Adrián Marín.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Lucas Cepeda
- The dugout Interim Coach: “No excuses”
- The dugout Fran Gámez dropped after a run of poor form