Ekaitz Jiménez

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The Ceuta Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Oct 2026

The knee: Yann Bodiger out for 50 days

50 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ceuta lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Marc Domènech

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Ceuta

José Matos 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 dugout12 Oct 2026

Matías Villalba 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Ceuta

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mawuli Mensah was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Pablo Santana stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Pablo Santana and Ceuta agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Tekio 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Ceuta and Andorra take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Luis Vidal chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

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10 Edition

The Ceuta Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Oct 2026

Ceuta taken apart

0‑3 to Racing Santander, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Ceuta

José Matos 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Tekio 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

133% of the income goes out in wages at Ceuta

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Ceuta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anuar 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Nobody left the Ceuta dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Cédric Teguia was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Luis Vidal answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ekaitz Jiménez signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ekaitz Jiménez and Ceuta agree another 3 years.

In brief