Bambo Diaby

Central Defender - Elche
29 May 2027
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 3 Transfers Relations Events 122 Awards Matches History

Marked for Bambo Diaby

38 Edition

The Elche Chronicle

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Apr 2027

The knee: Matías Dituro out for 94 days

94 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Elche lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match19 Apr 2027

Elche are in real trouble now

Position 19, 23 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match17 Apr 2027

Nowhere to hide for Elche

1‑4 against Celta, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market19 Apr 2027

Elche may not be able to give Lucas Cepeda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Cepeda wants continental football; whether Elche can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad19 Apr 2027

Bambo Diaby 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 Elche this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Ezequiel Ponce

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ezequiel Ponce, and the manager let it.

Boardroom19 Apr 2027

Doors closed at Elche

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout19 Apr 2027

Jon Marín answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad19 Apr 2027

A long afternoon for Alejandro Iturbe

Beaten 4 times, with 2 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Elche Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Jan 2027

No end in sight to Elche's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Elche has to find a result from somewhere.

Match9 Jan 2027

Chastening afternoon for Elche

A 0‑3 beating by Valencia was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Miguel Sansores breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market11 Jan 2027

Tiziano Perrotta turns Mirandés down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market11 Jan 2027

Elche turn down Antequera for Federico Redondo

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market11 Jan 2027

Elche sell Roy Revivo for $2.0M

Roy Revivo has left for Sevilla in a $2.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Elche rebuffed over Marcus Thuram

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Madrid have kept their man, and Elche go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match9 Jan 2027

No clean sheets in sight for Elche

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Víctor Chust gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • Squad Words exchanged at Elche
  • Match The half-term report on Elche
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Elche dressing room in a hurry
9 Edition

The Elche Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

Pedro Bigas damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Elche

Kevin Lomónaco 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.

Market28 Sep 2026

Elche may not be able to give Lucas Cepeda what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Cepeda wants continental football; whether Elche can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match26 Sep 2026

Levante snatch it back from Elche

A goal on 91 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Elche

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Bambo Diaby gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match26 Sep 2026

Ezequiel Ponce rescues a point for Elche

It needed Ezequiel Ponce to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Levante, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Lucas Cepeda

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jon Marín was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Elche dressing room was either.

In brief