The Sevilla Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Sevilla spend $51.5M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $51.5M has been paid because Jarrod Bowen is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Marc Bernal
Sevilla asked and Barcelona 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 targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $12.5M for Ionuţ Radu
Sevilla have gone to Celta 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jarrod Bowen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jarrod Bowen has just signed for Sevilla, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sevilla baulk at the price for David Alaba
Real Madrid wanted more than $2.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
José Ángel Carmona raises the bar for Sevilla
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Sevilla heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rubén Vargas signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rubén Vargas and Sevilla agree another 4 years.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Sevilla paid $51.5M
Jarrod Bowen was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $51.5M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Miguel Torres joins the Sevilla first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miguel Torres 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 One of our own: Andrés Domínguez joins the Sevilla first team
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Sevilla
- The dugout Rubén Vargas knocks on the manager’s door