The Antequera Herald
Squad20 Aug 2029
The knee: Anartz Peña out for 56 days
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Antequera lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market20 Aug 2029
Jordan Bustin asks to leave Antequera
“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.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
$21.0K settles it between the clubs for Raúl Lizoáin
Granada have accepted the money. What Antequera do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Antequera
Edu Sánchez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
Antequera baulk at the price for Pablo Cacharrón
Sabadell wanted more than $270.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
8 academy players handed senior numbers at Antequera
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
Antequera rebuffed over Juan Moreno
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Almería have kept their man, and Antequera go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market20 Aug 2029
Cristian Ramírez steps up from the Antequera academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cristian Ramírez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market20 Aug 2029
One of our own: Javier Ferrer joins the Antequera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Javier Ferrer 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 Carlos García steps up from the Antequera academy
- Squad A row about effort at Antequera
- Squad Will Wilson wants to go home