The Pontevedra Gazette
Squad21 Aug 2028
The knee: Álvaro Pérez out for 36 days
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pontevedra lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Aug 2028
Alain Ribeiro asks to leave Pontevedra
“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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Coke Carrillo turns down Pontevedra
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Celta keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Pontevedra make their move for Cristian Torrelavid
$200.0K on the table at Antequera. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Raúl Nuño at Pontevedra
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Raúl Nuño is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Pontevedra walk away from Melvin Gómez
$35.0K was the most the club would pay and Guadalajara were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Pontevedra
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Pontevedra rebuffed over Ayoub Akabou
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ceuta have kept their man, and Pontevedra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market21 Aug 2028
Pontevedra promote Ibai Soto from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ibai 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.
In brief
- Market Martí Ramírez steps up from the Pontevedra academy
- Market Martín Alonso steps up from the Pontevedra academy
- Squad A row about effort at Pontevedra