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Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Javi Mérida out for 31 days
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud Torremolinos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
Javi Mérida 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 Juventud Torremolinos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bernabé and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sabadell have kept their man, and Juventud Torremolinos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pito Camacho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 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.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
The knee: Javi Mérida out for 38 days
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud Torremolinos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bernabé in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Juventud Torremolinos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
The knee: Javi Mérida out for 45 days
45 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Juventud Torremolinos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at PSV is saying, and nobody at Juventud Torremolinos is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bernabé 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Bastián Muñoz 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. Bastián Muñoz is living that version at Juventud Torremolinos, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Juventud Torremolinos asked and Deportivo La Coruña said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Juventud Torremolinos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pito Camacho 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.
Loan watch17 Aug 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Juventud Torremolinos, and 0 appearances in 1 say he has earned the hearing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Club Brugge: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ajax 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Juventud Torremolinos have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bernabé and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mario Rubio 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alejandro Herrera 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lucas Peña 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Juventud Torremolinos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edu 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.
Loan watch10 Aug 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Juventud Torremolinos, and 0 appearances in 0 say he has earned the hearing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Deportivo La Coruña: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Juventud Torremolinos have made the call to PSV. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Zamora for Dani González 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fran García and Juventud Torremolinos agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bernabé 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Juventud Torremolinos can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Juventud Torremolinos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francisco Gallego 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Cristian Lara has come up in conversations Juventud Torremolinos were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.