The Almería Gazette
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$11.5M settles it between the clubs for Natan
Betis have accepted the money. What Almería do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market23 Aug 2027
Jon Morcillo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Almería, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Almería baulk at the price for José Ángel Carmona
Sevilla wanted more than $16.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Natan
Almería asked and Betis said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Vintage Álex Muñoz — 8.18
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.18, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Almería — 7.98
1 for Javi Muñoz, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Jon Morcillo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Daijiro Chirino 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 Almería this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Almería
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market Daniel Herrera steps up from the Almería academy
- Market Almería promote Luis Ibañez from within
- Market One of our own: Raúl Campos joins the Almería first team