The Marbella Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No deal for Yago Santiago at that price
Marbella offered $3.6M; Elche said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Marbella
Santiago Úbeda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Marbella rebuffed over Diogo Pinto
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estrela da Amadora have kept their man, and Marbella go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Izei Ferrer joins the Marbella first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Izei Ferrer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Francisco Torres steps up from the Marbella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Francisco Torres has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Medina steps up from the Marbella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gonzalo Medina has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Vicente Cano joins the Marbella first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vicente Cano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Santiago Úbeda in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Marbella are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
12 new faces, and Marbella are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad Coke Carrillo falls out with a teammate over standards
- Transfer targets Marbella ask about Pablo Barredo