The Leganés Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Leganés agree $4.5M for Alexis Cuello
The clubs have shaken hands with San Lorenzo; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Leganés baulk at the price for David Alaba
Real Madrid wanted more than $1.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Álvaro Morata 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 Leganés this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zico Buurmeester signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Zico Buurmeester commits to Leganés for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rubén Peña 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Coventry City tell Leganés: Ellis Simms is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Miguel Molina joins the Leganés first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miguel Molina 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
Sergio Ramos steps up from the Leganés academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergio Ramos 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: Oihan Muñoz joins the Leganés first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oihan Muñoz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Miguel Cortés joins the Leganés first team
- Squad Bruno Bianchi is a square peg at Leganés
- The dugout Zico Buurmeester knocks on the manager’s door