Marked for Cedric
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gimnàstic lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Iván Morales and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Julio González 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
This league is too small for Jesús Owono
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Gimnàstic will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Gimnàstic academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market5 Jul 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marc Montalvo has his answer from Gimnàstic; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market5 Jul 2027
The clock runs on Cedric's contract
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
$9.3M from Unionistas for Jaume Jardí. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for César Morgado
57 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gimnàstic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
$3.6M on the table at Mérida. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
Gimnàstic sell a favourite for $9.3M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jaume Jardí was one of the reasons people came, and $9.3M does not replace that by itself.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Cedric keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gimnàstic may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $4.0M — a club that wants Sigurður Bjartur Hallsson enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Iván Morales and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
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.
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Steady
Squad31 May 2027
César Morgado damages knee ligaments — 64 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 64 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.
Squad31 May 2027
Iván Morales 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 Gimnàstic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Jaume Jardí 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Víctor Barrionuevo, and the manager let it.
Market31 May 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Dani Rebollo may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout31 May 2027
Miguel Morro has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Miguel Morro has written the date down.
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Crisis
Squad17 May 2027
César Morgado damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.
Match17 May 2027
Full time on the season at Gimnàstic
Position 10 on 49 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
The dugout17 May 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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad17 May 2027
Words exchanged at Gimnàstic
Iván Morales 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.
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 May 2027
Julio González 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Tomás Garrido left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Gimnàstic
Iván Morales 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julio González, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Cristian Ibáñez 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.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
The leaders are next for Gimnàstic
Hércules top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
A reunion for Pipe
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Hércules in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Pipe knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pipe trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
A door opens for Cedric
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tobías Andrada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Morro, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Pipe signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pipe and Gimnàstic agree another 2 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Gimnàstic told Álex Jiménez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Jaume Jardí beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Pedro Alcalá’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Gimnàstic needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aitor Gelardo and Gimnàstic agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Defensores have kept their man, and Gimnàstic go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aitor Gelardo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Enric Pujol has come up in conversations Gimnàstic were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Toulouse FC: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Luis Rivas is in the works
Gimnàstic have made the call to Antequera. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.