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The Espanyol Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Espanyol turn down Real Sociedad for Omar El Hilali

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Ángel Fortuño stays at Espanyol

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Heidenheim had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Espanyol baulk at the price for Álvaro Valles

Betis wanted more than $6.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Espanyol rebuffed over Álvaro Fernández

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportivo La Coruña have kept their man, and Espanyol go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marko Dmitrović signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marko Dmitrović and Espanyol agree another 2 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Espanyol

Bryan Zaragoza 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Sergio Sánchez joins the Espanyol first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Jesús Medina joins the Espanyol first team

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Espanyol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andoni Gorosabel 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.

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The Espanyol Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Valencia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Espanyol did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market3 Aug 2026

Edu Expósito raises the bar for Espanyol

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Espanyol heard it as anything else.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Omar El Hilali stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Omar El Hilali and Espanyol agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Espanyol

Bryan Zaragoza and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Omar El Hilali 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Universidad de Chile tell Espanyol: Juan Martín Lucero is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market3 Aug 2026

Ángel Fortuño attracts admirers

The name of Ángel Fortuño has come up in conversations Espanyol were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market3 Aug 2026

49 months and counting on Omar El Hilali

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

7 new faces, and Espanyol are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief