The Girona Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Thalys would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Thalys is living that version at Girona, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bryan Gil stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bryan Gil and Girona agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Iván Martín 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 Girona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Abel Ruiz 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Girona bring in Thalys from Almería for the long haul
A squad is not eleven players and a wish. Thalys arrives from Almería to make the number up properly, and the value of that will be argued about in March rather than today.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Álex Moreno
Still no offer on the table, and Álex Moreno’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Girona and Axel Witsel are talking past each other
- Market The Toni Fuidias conversation is coming
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Michael Ortega