The Almagro Chronicle
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Enzo Martínez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Almagro turn down Kalmar FF for Emiliano González
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tiziano Dornell, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Enzo Martínez 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 Almagro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Asis 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Tiziano Dornell
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Juan Fernándes Pinto stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Fernándes Pinto and Almagro agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Julián Vitale
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julián Vitale, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Gonzalo Asis
Still no offer on the table, and Gonzalo Asis’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Almagro buy the years ahead of Pedro Domínguez
- Market Almagro buy the years ahead of Luis Flores
- Match Honours even between Almagro and San Miguel