The Ibiza Gazette
Market23 Aug 2027
Ognjen Teofilović hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ibiza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Bébé 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 Ibiza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Ibiza
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Marcos Cuenca 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ibiza count the cost of losing Adri Pérez
60 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Luis Rey joins the Ibiza first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Rey 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
Ibiza promote Mario Méndez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mario Méndez 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
Ibiza promote David Lorenzo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Lorenzo 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 3484. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
In brief
- The dugout Sergio Díez knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Marcos Cuenca has settled at Ibiza
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Unai Medina