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Process
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The Almería Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $26.5M for Ez Abde

Almería have gone to Betis with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Eyes on Miguel De la Fuente again

The phone has started ringing about Miguel De la Fuente again, and this time the name on the line is Deportivo La Coruña. Almería are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Sergio Arribas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sergio Arribas commits to Almería for another 5 years.

Transfer targets

Almería baulk at the price for David Alaba

Real Madrid wanted more than $760.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Eric González

Almería asked and Defensores Unidos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Almería

Léo Baptistão 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.

Market

One of our own: Aimar Domínguez joins the Almería first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aimar Domínguez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Almería promote Santiago Montero from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Santiago Montero has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Almería promote Pol Cano from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pol Cano has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

Back issues
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The Almería Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sergio Arribas 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 Almería hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Thiago Acosta

Almería asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Adrián Embarba stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrián Embarba and Almería agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Almería

Mikel Vesga 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.

Squad

Juan Manuel Cruz gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Juan Manuel Cruz has just signed for Almería, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Almería training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Baptistão 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.

Market

Talks stall between Almería and Adrián Embarba

“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.

Market

24 months and counting on Mikel Vesga

Still no offer on the table, and Mikel Vesga’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets

Almería try to borrow Ale Gomes

Zaragoza have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief