The Ceuta Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Redru asks to leave Ceuta
“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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Íñigo Lekue rejects the move
Ceuta had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Athletic Bilbao, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Valencia tell Ceuta: Aliou Dieng 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Cristian Rodríguez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Manu Sánchez 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 Ceuta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Pol Pascual on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pol Pascual after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The form table has caught Álex Petxarromán
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No place for Yoel Lago in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Ceuta are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market31 Aug 2026
No place for Manu Sánchez in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Manu Sánchez has his answer from Ceuta; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Ceuta?
- The dugout Mawuli Mensah does not fit this one
- Squad Edgar Sevikyan goes off with his country