Ivan Spajić

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Cacereño
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Marked for Ivan Spajić

45 Edition

The Cacereño Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rubén Sanchidrián

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cacereño lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Cacereño

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market7 Jun 2027

Javi Barrio asks to leave Cacereño

“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 targets7 Jun 2027

Diego Murillo is a medical away from Cacereño

The deal with Málaga 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Cacereño

Mamadou Loum 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Wilfrid Kaptoum wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Cacereño know it.

Market7 Jun 2027

Hércules join the queue for Pau Palacín

Add another name to the list: Hércules have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Pau Palacín. The answer from Cacereño has not changed — yet.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Javi Díaz 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Ivan Spajić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Spajić and Cacereño agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
29 Edition

The Cacereño Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match13 Feb 2027

The wait goes on for Cacereño

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match13 Feb 2027

Whatever happens, Cacereño do not lose

7 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at Cacereño

Víctor Villacañas 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.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

The manager makes an example of José Alonso

“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.

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

The afternoon belonged to Mamadou Loum

A mark of 7.30, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Alejandro Duran: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

A promise honoured for Deco

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Cacereño told Deco something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad15 Feb 2027

The formation has left Ivan Spajić behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Cacereño will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Match13 Feb 2027

No goals between Cacereño and Celta Fortuna

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Celta Fortuna will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

28 Edition

The Cacereño Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market8 Feb 2027

Iván Fernández 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 Cacereño, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

The paperwork begins on Fabrizio Brignani

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

Match6 Feb 2027

4 matches without a win for Cacereño

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cacereño are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

Nico Conesa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match6 Feb 2027

Whatever happens, Cacereño do not lose

6 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.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Cacereño rebuffed over Sergio Arribas

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

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Javi Díaz

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

Player ratings8 Feb 2027

The afternoon belonged to Kensly Vázquez

A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Javier Hyjek 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.

In brief