From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
“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.
Match13 Nov 2027
A 3-2 win over Levante , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Nicola Leali 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.
Javi Moreno Javi Moreno says Albacete went back on their word
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Uneasy
Match3 Nov 2027
Albacete bow out of the cupVillarreal go through and Albacete go home, 0-1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match6 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Albacete 's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Albacete has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Bassidy Sanogo : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“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.
Match6 Nov 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Higinio knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
Squad
Is this Higinio ’s last season?
Market
Carlos Neva linked with a move away
The terraces
Everybody has an opinion about Fran Gámez
Boardroom
The Albacete production line keeps running
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Steady
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Antonio Pacheco
“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.
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Crisis
Match23 Oct 2027
Beaten 0-4 by Zaragoza , and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Nicola Leali lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Carlos Neva 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.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
Paul Roussel : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Javi Villar
“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.
Match16 Oct 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad11 Oct 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
Match9 Oct 2027
A 1-0 win over Las Palmas , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Agus Medina 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
Carlos Neva linked with a move awayThe name of Carlos Neva keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Lorenzo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
Javi Villar : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Oct 2027
Paul Roussel 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 Albacete can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Antonio Puertas and Albacete agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Javi Villar Javi Villar: that is not what I was promised
Match2 Oct 2027
Three points for Albacete , 2-1 the final word against Cultural Leonesa in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Albacete will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Málaga left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match15 Sep 2027
Albacete march on in the cupElche are out and Albacete go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A one-man rearguard from Nicola Leali
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.
Higinio Higinio says Albacete went back on their word
Match18 Sep 2027
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Antonio Pacheco
“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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Fernando Medrano asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Match11 Sep 2027
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Sep 2027
46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Víctor Valverde
“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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nicola Leali lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nicola Leali knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market13 Sep 2027
Carlos Neva linked with a move awayThe name of Carlos Neva keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
Market
Window shut, Lluís still here
Boardroom
The Albacete production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Jesús Vallejo wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Albacete hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Nicola Leali Nicola Leali says Albacete went back on their word
Market6 Sep 2027
The deal that would have taken Álex Domínguez to Alavés has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Albacete with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Sep 2027
José Corpas 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.
Match4 Sep 2027
0-1 to Mirandés , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Nicola Leali
There were 10 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Víctor Valverde and Albacete agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match28 Aug 2027
Three points for Albacete , 2-0 the final word against Huesca in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market30 Aug 2027
Alavés are about to pick up the phoneA conversation is coming this week. Albacete will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Lorenzo 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Churre is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Albacete has been clear about where Churre stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market30 Aug 2027
The name of Jesús Vallejo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market23 Aug 2027
Ivan Guzmán 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 Albacete can pretend not to have heard.
Market23 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Jesús Fernández is back at Albacete , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market23 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Javier Flores is back at Albacete , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market23 Aug 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Jesús Vallejo
“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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Three points for Albacete , 1-0 the final word against Ceuta in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad23 Aug 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Albacete have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jesús Vallejo has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Jesús Vallejo keeps the shirt for now, at Albacete 's convenience rather than his own.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lorenzo knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market16 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Marino Illescas is back at Albacete , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 77 days on the sidelines for Fran Gámez , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Lluís 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Carlos Pomares has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Albacete .
Market16 Aug 2027
Carlos Neva linked with a move awayThe name of Carlos Neva keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
Lluís : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Mariño commits to Albacete for another 2 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Laborda
“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.
Lluís Lluís: that is not what I was promised
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Mariño and Albacete agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Albacete release $283.7K for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Diego Mariño 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Jul 2027
The Agus Medina talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Albacete know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
Paul Roussel 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market19 Jul 2027
Carlos Neva linked with a move awayThe name of Carlos Neva keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market12 Jul 2027
The bid was some way short and Albacete did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad12 Jul 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Jul 2027
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Paul Roussel knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market12 Jul 2027
Nobody at Albacete has picked up the phone to Lorenzo
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
Market
Churre placed on the list
Boardroom
The Albacete board put their names to it
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lorenzo and Albacete agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Albacete release $283.7K for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ivan Guzmán 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.
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Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Laborda
“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.
Market28 Jun 2027
The Agus Medina talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Albacete know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Lorenzo knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
Lluís says Albacete went back on their word“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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Churre
“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.
Lluís Lluís says Albacete went back on their word
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
Edward Cedeño : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Jun 2027
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Antonio Pacheco
“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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Churre placed on the listAlbacete have made Churre available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Somebody is after Diego Mariño ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Diego Mariño suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Albacete have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Crisis
Squad7 Jun 2027
There were 8 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 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Pepe Sánchez : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Mario Soberón
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
10 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match5 Jun 2027
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Albacete release $283.7K for the managerThe board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match29 May 2027
Leganés made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 May 2027
A season average of 7.45 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Laborda
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
Higinio asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad31 May 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
The terraces31 May 2027
The spotlight tightens on Diego Mariño
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
There were 11 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.42 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match22 May 2027
Three points for Albacete , 3-2 the final word against Cádiz in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Chofis
“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.
Squad24 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
Agus Medina linked with a move awayThe name of Agus Medina keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad17 May 2027
The medical room confirms 61 days on the sidelines for Jesús Vallejo , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad17 May 2027
6 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Guzmán
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 May 2027
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.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Víctor Valverde
“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.
Match8 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Córdoba defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Squad3 May 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.41 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad3 May 2027
“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.
Match1 May 2027
Deportivo La Coruña left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Carlos Neva
“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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$283.7K on the table at Albacete
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad3 May 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
10 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match24 Apr 2027
A 1-0 win over Andorra , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“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.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Víctor Valverde
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market26 Apr 2027
Agus Medina linked with a move awayThe name of Agus Medina keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Albacete say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Higinio wants a proper job in this sideShifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Higinio has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Albacete know, and have known for weeks.
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Steady
Match17 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Albacete
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Albacete are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Higinio
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.39 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Higinio The manager makes an example of Higinio
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.40 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match10 Apr 2027
Beaten 2-4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad12 Apr 2027
José Corpas 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Albacete pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market12 Apr 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Albacete signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
The terraces
Everybody has an opinion about Carlos Neva
The terraces
The press have found their man in Chofis
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Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The award goes to Jesús Vallejo , and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
Jesús Vallejo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.32 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Javi Manquillo
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
A 2-2 draw with Gijón leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Match22 Mar 2027
Albacete up to position 351 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match20 Mar 2027
Valladolid made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Álex Domínguez
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
8 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Diego Mariño lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Javi Manquillo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
Javi Manquillo : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Mar 2027
21 goals and a season average of 7.47. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 1-0 win over Zaragoza , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
Kevin Medina : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonio Puertas commits to Albacete for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Víctor Valverde
“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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad1 Mar 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.45 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match27 Feb 2027
Las Palmas left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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.
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Steady
Match22 Feb 2027
Albacete are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 44 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.43 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 42 days on the sidelines for David Simón , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market22 Feb 2027
The shirt still fits. Cameron Ashia is back at Albacete , and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match20 Feb 2027
Cultural Leonesa made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 96% of everything Albacete earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Crisis
Squad15 Feb 2027
Carlos Pomares : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Albacete 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Albacete has to find a result from somewhere.
Match13 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Albacete against Málaga
1-2 to Málaga , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Higinio
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Javi Manquillo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Albacete lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Higinio The manager makes an example of Higinio
Match6 Feb 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Burgos will be the happier side with the point.
Squad8 Feb 2027
José Corpas has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. José Corpas keeps the shirt for now, at Albacete 's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.43 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Feb 2027
Jesús Vallejo wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Albacete hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.
Match30 Jan 2027
A 1-1 draw with Mirandés leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Pepe Sánchez has come up in conversations Albacete were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 114% of everything Albacete earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A season average of 7.22 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Antonio Pacheco asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
The terraces
The spotlight tightens on Lorenzo
Squad
Higinio named in the team of the week
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Upbeat
Match18 Jan 2027
Albacete are in among the leadersPosition 1 and 39 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match16 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
Match16 Jan 2027
Three points for Albacete , 2-0 the final word against Ceuta in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jesús Vallejo is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.21 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market18 Jan 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Albacete signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody is after José Corpas ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and José Corpas suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Albacete have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
In brief
Market
Paris Irie leaves for nothing
The terraces
The press have found their man in Higinio
The terraces
The stand has a song for Higinio
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Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 7 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Álex Domínguez
“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.
Match9 Jan 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Chofis has company in his positionThe competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Chofis keeps the shirt for now, at Albacete 's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
Market
Lluís placed on the list
Squad
Javi Villar asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
17 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match2 Jan 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Elche come back empty-handedThe bid was some way short and Albacete did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match2 Jan 2027
Leganés made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 4-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Higinio 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Víctor Valverde asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Is this Fran Gámez ’s last season?
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Fran Gámez is 35, with 27 appearances behind him, and Albacete will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Agus Medina talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Albacete know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market4 Jan 2027
Churre placed on the listAlbacete have made Churre available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Match26 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
15 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
189% of the income goes out in wages at Albacete
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
3-3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Higinio knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Match21 Dec 2026
Albacete are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
14 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match19 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
Match19 Dec 2026
Castellón made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Lluís
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Javi Manquillo knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Jefté Betancor : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match12 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Albacete did not have in the autumn.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Carlos Pomares is 34, with 105 appearances behind him, and Albacete will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
The press have found their man in Sebas Moyano
Column inches are not points, but a footballer whose name keeps appearing for the right reasons is a footballer whose price has just gone up.
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Steady
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
227% of the income goes out in wages at Albacete
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Andorra came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.33 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad23 Nov 2026
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Match16 Nov 2026
Albacete are in among the leadersPosition 3 and 22 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
11 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Edward Cedeño Edward Cedeño says Albacete went back on their word
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Steady
Match4 Nov 2026
Atlético Madrid ended it 3-4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad9 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Diego Mariño knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 9 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Gijón will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Albacete were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Diego Mariño : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Albacete have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
227% of the income goes out in wages at Albacete
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Víctor Valverde
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Javi Manquillo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Albacete 's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Albacete has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
63 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match24 Oct 2026
Valladolid left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Antonio Pacheco asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Albacete against Eibar
1-3 to Eibar , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 26 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Albacete have a decision that made itself.
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Upbeat
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
378% of the income goes out in wages at Albacete
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Las Palmas left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Agus Medina 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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 13 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Albacete cannot stop winning4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match26 Sep 2026
Cultural Leonesa made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Carlos Pomares
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mario Soberón is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.22 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Agus Medina knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Diego Mariño
There were 10 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
Albacete through in the cupA 2-0 win over Oviedo , and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match19 Sep 2026
Albacete cannot stop winning3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1-0 win over Málaga , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jefté Betancor knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
Squad
Chofis finally opens his account
The terraces
The press cannot get enough of Chofis
The terraces
Chofis has his own song now
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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
Burgos made Albacete work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Javi Manquillo knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Albacete , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Albacete spent the window trying to move Pepe Sánchez on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The press cannot get enough of Jesús Vallejo
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Antonio Puertas plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 331% of everything Albacete earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match5 Sep 2026
3-3, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lluís 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.
Lluís Lluís gets it from the manager
Squad7 Sep 2026
Javi Manquillo asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market7 Sep 2026
Experience through the door at Albacete
Churre arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
José Corpas 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Albacete have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
Squad
David Simón knocks on the manager's door
Squad
Higinio unhappy with how he is being used
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Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
Pepe Sánchez 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 Albacete can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Albacete , 3-1 the final word against Ceuta in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Diego Mariño
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Albacete have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market24 Aug 2026
Albacete bring in an old headCarlos Pomares is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $590.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Racing drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Albacete signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Albacete signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agus Medina commits to Albacete for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Agus Medina
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Higinio 's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Albacete
Ivan Guzmán arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market10 Aug 2026
Albacete bring in an old headFran Cifuentes is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonio Puertas commits to Albacete for another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Albacete have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Agus Medina asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market3 Aug 2026
Pepe Sánchez is free to find somewhere else“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Albacete has been clear about where Pepe Sánchez stands, which is more than many ever get.