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48 Edition

The Sabadell Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Jun 2027

Rodrigo Escudero says no to Mérida

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Rodrigo Escudero had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market28 Jun 2027

Rodrigo Escudero puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sabadell, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Kaiser says Sabadell went back on their word

“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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Sabadell

Ryunosuke Sato and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Door shut on Adrián Fernández

Sabadell asked and Independiente said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Facundo 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 dugout28 Jun 2027

No hiding place for Rodrigo Escudero

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

Squad28 Jun 2027

Enzo Briones is a square peg at Sabadell

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Javi López-Pinto asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
45 Edition

The Sabadell Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Jun 2027

Nil Ruiz has said yes to Ourense CF

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sabadell have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market7 Jun 2027

Mérida come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sabadell did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market7 Jun 2027

Kaiser hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sabadell can pretend not to have heard.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Ryunosuke Sato 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 Sabadell this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Sabadell count the cost of losing Javi López-Pinto

21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Sabadell rebuffed over Samuel Portillo

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

Squad7 Jun 2027

Javi López-Pinto 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Nil Ruiz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nil Ruiz commits to Sabadell for another 3 years.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Sabadell ask about Tommy Maistrello

A loan enquiry to Union Brescia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

24 Edition

The Sabadell Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Javi López-Pinto was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Sabadell

Alberto Marí 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.

Match9 Jan 2027

The goals have deserted Sabadell

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Sabadell can tell you which week it ends in.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Lazio tell Sabadell: Danilo Cataldi is not for sale

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.

Match9 Jan 2027

Atlético Madrileño take the points off Sabadell

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Time is catching up with Marvin Piñón

Everybody at Sabadell saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Juan Yangali needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Sabadell know which stage they are at.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Sabadell training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Quadri Liameed 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.

The dugout11 Jan 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 0‑1 Víctor Méndez left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

13 Edition

The Sabadell Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Oct 2026

Diego Fuoli keeps Sabadell in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Sabadell

Javi Villar 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.

The terraces26 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Javi Villar

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match24 Oct 2026

Javi Villar sends Sabadell past Algeciras

It finished 2‑0, and it was Javi Villar’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sabadell.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

One of those days for Javi Villar

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Duván Riascos

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

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nothing got past Arthur Bonaldo

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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Víctor Méndez, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Sabadell training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi López-Pinto 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.

In brief