The Alcorcón Courier
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Fee done, terms next for Alfonso Herrero
Alcorcón and Málaga have settled on $540.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Valencia tell Alcorcón: Theo 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.
Market25 Aug 2031
Only the photograph left for DJ Bernard
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. DJ Bernard will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Alcorcón the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
No thanks: Michał Perchel rejects the move
Alcorcón had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Valladolid, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Words exchanged at Alcorcón
Marino Illescas 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.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Time is catching up with Lautaro Núñez
Everybody at Alcorcón saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 33 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Market25 Aug 2031
No place for Alan Visco in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alan Visco has his answer from Alcorcón; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Alcorcón try to borrow Arnau Rafús
Osasuna have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Agustín Callejas 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.
In brief
- The dugout Máximo Menseguez has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager makes an example of David Ortega
- The dugout Valentín Fiezzi asks for a word with the manager