Marked for Nicolás Benedetti
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market26 Oct 2026
Kirian hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Racing Santander left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
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Player ratings
Ale García gives it away
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Kirian
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ale García wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Ale García found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Gijón went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Enrique Clemente 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ale García. 2‑1 against Gijón, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Álex Suárez 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Adrián Suárez is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio Ruiz, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dinko Horkaš
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nicolás Benedetti damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Sergio Ruiz
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Las Palmas do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Ale García
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lion Lauberbach. 2‑0 against Málaga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match26 Sep 2026
Málaga blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Málaga tried to reorganise, Las Palmas did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Sep 2026
Mirandés are out and Las Palmas go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match16 Sep 2026
Mirandés are out and Las Palmas go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Las Palmas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iñaki González 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lion Lauberbach trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kirian’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Las Palmas
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Las Palmas are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Adrián Suárez is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Las Palmas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sergio Barcia 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Lion Lauberbach's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Sandro
A mark of 7.68, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Ceuta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market14 Sep 2026
At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
In brief
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The pass was always on for Ale García
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Market
The window shut and Adrián Suárez is still in the building
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicolás Benedetti
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Las Palmas lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dinko Horkaš
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Levante have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kirian. The answer from Las Palmas has not changed — yet.
Market7 Sep 2026
Adrián Suárez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Jonathan Viera to Levante has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Las Palmas with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lion Lauberbach 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
3 matches without a goal for Las Palmas
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Álex Suárez 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nicolás Benedetti damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kirian attracts admirers
The name of Kirian has come up in conversations Las Palmas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dinko Horkaš commits to Las Palmas for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kirian knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kirian trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonathan Viera has his answer from Las Palmas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nicolás Benedetti damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sandro and Las Palmas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dinko Horkaš 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Las Palmas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manu Fuster 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Las Palmas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.