The Elche Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Elche sign Manu Fernández for $5.4M
The paperwork is done: Manu Fernández joins from Celta in a deal worth $5.4M. Now comes the harder part.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Elche
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Germán Valera 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tete Morente 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 Elche this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Elche promote Enrique Iglesias from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Enrique Iglesias 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Eduardo Sánchez joins the Elche first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduardo Sánchez 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 Elche promote Daniel Ferrer from within
- Squad No hiding place for Víctor Chust
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Elche
- Squad Adrià Pedrosa has company in his position