The Eibar Herald
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Gastón Arraya out for 149 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eibar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Eibar rebuffed over Lucas Ribeiro
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cultural Leonesa have kept their man, and Eibar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Eric González is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Eibar
Juan Bernat 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Unai Elgezabal falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market14 Jun 2027
Iván Hidalgo steps up from the Eibar academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Hidalgo 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
David Jiménez steps up from the Eibar academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Jiménez 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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Aleix Garrido
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Jun 2027
Eibar put Jon Guruzeta up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jon Guruzeta may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Market The Javi Martínez story refuses to die
- Match Eibar in the hunt for Europe
- The dugout The manager makes Sergio Cubero a promise