The Algeciras Chronicle
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Aleix Coch out for 45 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Algeciras will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and André Nader delivers — 7.20
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. André Nader scored, was marked 7.20, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Marcos Cuenca turns down Algeciras
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Zaragoza keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Algeciras
Juanma and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Juanma is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Isaac Obeng was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Miguel San Román
Algeciras asked and Cultural Leonesa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Ricardo Britos 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Álvaro Mayorga 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.