The Mallorca Courier
Squad23 Aug 2027
The knee: Antonio Raíllo out for 24 days
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mallorca lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Abdón Prats out for 126 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mallorca will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Mallorca make their move for Mojmír Chytil
$18.5M on the table at AZ. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Lucas Bergström: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mallorca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Mallorca
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Mallorca
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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Real Madrid tell Mallorca: Marcus Thuram is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market23 Aug 2027
Mallorca promote Manuel Soto from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Manuel Soto has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market23 Aug 2027
Iván Sánchez steps up from the Mallorca academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Sánchez 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.
In brief
- Market Alejandro Peña steps up from the Mallorca academy
- Market Mallorca promote Santiago Santiago from within
- Match Espanyol take the points off Mallorca