The Leganés Chronicle
Market14 Sep 2026
Enric Franquesa 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 The request is on a desk at Leganés, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Álvaro Morata, 33, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Óscar Plano
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Leganés
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Plano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Leganés
Lalo Aguilar 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Roberto López
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
13 new faces, and Leganés 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Leganés and Las Palmas 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Martín Méndez was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Leganés dressing room was either.
In brief
- The dugout Ismaël Gharbi dropped after a run of poor form
- Squad Grischa Prömel still has not settled
- Looking ahead A reunion for Álvaro Tejero