The Ceuta Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ellis Lehane is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Luiz Felipe 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Ceuta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Matos 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
The goals have deserted Ceuta
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ceuta can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marino Illescas has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match4 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Ceuta against Cultural Leonesa
0‑1 to Cultural Leonesa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marino Illescas turns it into his own net
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Ceuta deserved better, and so did he.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Ceuta bank $333.3K from an old deal
The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Yann Bodiger is somebody else's player now, and $333.3K has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.
Market6 Sep 2027
Capa told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Capa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ceuta.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Abou Bassinga
- Market The market said no: Toni Abad stays put
- Market The shop window has Sofiane Bachiri in it