The Gimnàstic Herald
Market23 Aug 2027
Loïc Badiashile asks to leave Gimnàstic
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Gimnàstic
Jeremías Perales 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Gimnàstic
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Gimnàstic training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Facundo Agüero is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Gimnàstic rebuffed over Bautista Arricau
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Gimnàstic go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Jon Martínez joins the Gimnàstic first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jon Martínez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
Javier Montero steps up from the Gimnàstic academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Javier Montero 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Javier Cano joins the Gimnàstic first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Javier Cano is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
A loan move for Jorge Álvarez is in the works
Gimnàstic have made the call to Marbella. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Transfer targets Gimnàstic try to borrow Leonardo Rolón
- The dugout Facundo Agüero knocks on the manager's door
- Squad No place for Elijah Benedict in the new shape