The Almería Gazette
Squad23 Sep 2030
The knee: Iván López out for 19 days
19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Almería lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Dani Martín stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market23 Sep 2030
Jorge Juárez has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Almería they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match21 Sep 2030
Real Sociedad B take the points off Almería
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Leonardo Escalante 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Valentín Dávila 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 Almería this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout23 Sep 2030
Interim Coach: “No excuses”
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Sep 2030
Jaime Vargas 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.
Looking ahead23 Sep 2030
A reunion for Gonzalo Villar
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Rayo Vallecano in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- The dugout Ariel Kippes knocks on the manager's door
- Market Still no signature from Leonardo Escalante
- The dugout Lucas Cuffia does not fit this one