Luis Solignac

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Valladolid
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Luis Solignac

27 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Stipe Biuk out for 95 days

95 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Valladolid lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Jesus Vega leads the rout of Córdoba

5‑0, and Jesus Vega took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Valladolid tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Juanmi Latasa's — 9.39

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

3 goals for Jesus Vega

The match ball belongs to Jesus Vega, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Luis Solignac 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 Valladolid can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Valladolid agree $280.0K for Iván Cuéllar

The clubs have shaken hands with Mallorca; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Player ratings

Arda Güler beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at Valladolid

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Miguel Rubio raises the bar for Valladolid

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

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Jesus Vega takes the afternoon — 9.15

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jesus Vega provided it, and the 9.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Luis Solignac keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Valladolid may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Marcos André wants European nights

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Valladolid

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

Match

Jesus Vega the difference as Valladolid beat Mirandés

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesus Vega. 3‑2 against Mirandés, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Valladolid

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Julien Ponceau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Juanmi Latasa in the eights

A performance of 9.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Marcos André gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Valladolid promote Miguel Méndez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Méndez 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

14 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergi Canós

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valladolid lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Juanmi Latasa scores twice — 8.97

Two goals and a mark of 8.97 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Iván Alejo

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Miguel Rubio raises the bar for Valladolid

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

Squad

Tempers go at Valladolid

Jesus Vega 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Valladolid

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Valladolid did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Julien Ponceau 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.

Match

Valladolid see off Real Sociedad B

Three points for Valladolid, 3‑1 the final word against Real Sociedad B in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Valladolid supporters have found a favourite in Stipe Biuk

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Stipe Biuk has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief