Ignacio Castillo

Striker - Mallorca
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Ignacio Castillo

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The Mallorca Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Iván Cuéllar out for 148 days

148 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mallorca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Jan Salas agrees terms with Eibar

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mallorca people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Mallorca rebuffed over Keisuke Osako

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sanfrecce Hiroshima have kept their man, and Mallorca go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Mallorca get the job done against Espanyol

A 1‑0 win over Espanyol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Antony is a square peg at Mallorca

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Player ratings

Antony was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Arnau Puigmal stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.78 on the card, and the Mallorca support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Ignacio Castillo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ignacio Castillo and Mallorca agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Carlos Cano: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

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The Mallorca Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Iván Cuéllar out for 155 days

155 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mallorca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

$20.8M settles it between the clubs for Jens Petter Hauge

Bodo/Glimt have accepted the money. What Mallorca do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Antony is a Mallorca player

The fee is $42.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Betis drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dean Huijsen

Mallorca asked and Real Madrid said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mallorca

Antony 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.

The terraces

The town asked, and Mallorca paid $42.0M

Antony was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $42.0M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Squad

Aboubaka Soumahoro 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.

Boardroom

Mallorca say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

Looking ahead

Sergi Darder faces his old club

Espanyol next, and one man in the Mallorca dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief