The Sevilla Courier
Squad8 Mar 2027
Lucas Acosta signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Acosta and Sevilla agree another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rubén Vargas 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 Sevilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Mar 2027
César Azpilicueta wants more than Sevilla are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match6 Mar 2027
Sevilla find a way past Elche
Elche made Sevilla work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market8 Mar 2027
Ignacio Herrera steps up from the Sevilla academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignacio Herrera 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A masterclass from Chidera Ejuke
Marked 8.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
One of those days for Thiago Almada
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Neal Maupay gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sevilla are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Rubén Vargas gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Roberto Blanco: “That is the standard”
- Market The Isaac Romero talk will not go away