The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Las Palmas have gone to Real Madrid 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.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $6.8M — a club that wants César Palacios enough to be asked twice.
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Las Palmas has been clear about where Jesé stands, which is more than many ever get.
Deportivo La Coruña next, and one man in the Las Palmas dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Las Palmas lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Celta have kept their man, and Las Palmas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The offer from US Orleans for Enzo Loiodice was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rubén Martín has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nil Lorenzo 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aimar Gutiérrez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The phone has started ringing about Enzo Loiodice again, and this time the name on the line is US Orleans. Las Palmas are listening politely and promising nothing.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Penarol have kept their man, and Las Palmas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Las Palmas are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Still no offer on the table, and Jefté Betancor’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 Las Palmas 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.
Las Palmas have made the call to Deportivo La Coruña. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
SquadSandro falls out with a teammate over standards