The Málaga Gazette
Squad10 Jan 2028
Joaquín is carrying Málaga
20 goals and a season average of 7.47. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market10 Jan 2028
Le Havre AC watching Nicolás Fernández Mercau
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Málaga have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match8 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Málaga
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market10 Jan 2028
Thiago Pereira asks to leave Málaga
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match8 Jan 2028
Málaga leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Player ratings10 Jan 2028
David Larrubia beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Málaga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Fernández Mercau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Málaga rebuffed over Martí Ruiz
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Huesca have kept their man, and Málaga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Málaga
Pablo Martínez 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mateo Blanco joins the Málaga first team
- Market Málaga promote Vicente Márquez from within
- Player ratings One of those days for Joaquín