From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Sevilla asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for Dani Vivian ended with $34.6M changing hands and Athletic Bilbao out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Dani Vivian would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dani Vivian is living that version at Sevilla, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Barcelona come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sevilla did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Barcelona wanted more than $4.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sevilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 49378. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sevilla are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Athletic Bilbao is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Barcelona this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Solly March arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Solly March has, at Sevilla, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rubén Vargas and Sevilla agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sevilla
Youssouf Fofana 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
Ignacio Chicco signs for Sevilla to fix the gap everybody could see
There is a particular relief in a club addressing the thing its own crowd has been shouting about. Ignacio Chicco arrives for exactly that job, and now he has to do it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Villarreal have kept their man, and Sevilla go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Sevilla
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Solly March was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Izei Sánchez 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Sevilla have gone to Aldosivi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chidera Ejuke and Sevilla agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Sevilla
Youssouf Fofana and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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
The clock runs on Chidera Ejuke's contract
49 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.
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.