The Cartagena Sentinel
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $11.7M for Isi Palazón
Cartagena have gone to Rayo Vallecano with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Leonardo Campana
Cartagena asked and New England Revolution said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $4.6M for Álex Pastor
Cartagena have gone to Málaga with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Cartagena go back to the board over Isi Palazón
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $13.7M — a club that wants Isi Palazón enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cartagena
Pablo De Blasis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy graduates step up at Cartagena
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Cartagena training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aridane Hernández 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Cartagena promote Jorge Hidalgo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jorge Hidalgo 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at Cartagena
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Cartagena and Gastón Novero
- Market Cartagena add cover with Gastón Novero
- Squad Pablo De Blasis has company in his position