The Almería Gazette
Market28 Sep 2026
Sergio Arribas asks to leave Almería
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jon Morcillo 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 Almería this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Ibrahima Koné
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrahima Koné, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Almería training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. André Horta is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Daijiro Chirino
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Jaime Seoane was immovable
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
In brief
- Player ratings Ibrahima Koné keeps on missing
- Squad Dion Lopy knocks on the manager's door
- Match Almería and Real Sociedad B cancel each other out
- Player ratings Sergio Arribas leaves them behind him