The Marbella Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Marbella bid $2.8M for Ángel Rodado
The offer went to Wisla Krakow this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Marbella
Gabriel Morales 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Marbella training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Sánchez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marbella promote Andrés Duran from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrés Duran has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pol López steps up from the Marbella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pol López 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
Raúl Campos steps up from the Marbella academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raúl Campos 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: Ibai Gallardo joins the Marbella first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ibai Gallardo 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
The formation has left Gabriel Morales behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Marbella will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marbella are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Diogo Pinto is in the works
- Transfer targets A loan move for Lautaro Taboada is in the works