Marked for Sergi Guardiola
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Franck Fomeyem: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Córdoba have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Aug 2027
452 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Córdoba know what they have.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Córdoba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Carlos Albarrán 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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Córdoba pull $394.3K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match20 Feb 2027
9 unbeaten for Córdoba
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Córdoba did not have in the autumn.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Dani Requena was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Juan Gutiérrez 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Mikel Goti runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Feb 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Mikel Goti runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Christian Carracedo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Isma Ruiz 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.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Mikel Goti runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
11 unbeaten for Córdoba
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Córdoba did not have in the autumn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Córdoba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Córdoba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isma Ruiz 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Mikel Goti 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sergi Guardiola dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Mikel Goti
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Carlos Marín is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Carlos Marín: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match16 Sep 2026
Córdoba march on in the cup
Leganés are out and Córdoba go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Christian Carracedo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for Córdoba
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Córdoba did not have in the autumn.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Córdoba, 1‑0 the final word against Granada in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Córdoba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignasi Vilarrasa 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Diego Bri misses from twelve yards
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the Córdoba support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christian Carracedo and Córdoba agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Córdoba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Córdoba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isma Ruiz 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.