The Granada Gazette
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Jorge Pascual takes the afternoon — 8.62
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jorge Pascual provided it, and the 8.62 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The Granada board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Granada
Marco Sportiello 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Granada come up short against Racing Santander
Racing Santander left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nélson Monte 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Jorge Pascual
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near José Arnáiz
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pedro Alemañ 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 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and Granada are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Player ratings Baba Diocou changes it off the bench
- Market Talks stall between Granada and Ruly
- Market Tropi placed on the list