Alberto Moleiro

Central Midfielder - Villarreal
18 Sep 2026
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Marked for Alberto Moleiro

6 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Sep 2026

Santi Comesaña 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 Villarreal can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 22 in, 1 out at Villarreal

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

Christian Pulisic wants more than Villarreal are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Villarreal rebuffed over Leandro Cabrera

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

Gerard Moreno loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Gerard Moreno. Villarreal will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

A reunion for Pape Guèye

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sevilla in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Alberto Moleiro called up by his country

A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Villarreal that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Villarreal give Carlos Romero the armband

A decision that decides nothing on the pitch and everything in the room. The manager has said, without saying it, whose voice he wants heard when his own is not there.

Market7 Sep 2026

The window shut and Pape Guèye is still in the building

Villarreal spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Villarreal pay AC Milan $30.6M for a proper upgrade

AC Milan did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $30.6M for Christian Pulisic, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Market17 Aug 2026

Villarreal turn down Real Madrid for Alberto Moleiro

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Christian Pulisic 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. Christian Pulisic is living that version at Villarreal, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market17 Aug 2026

Celta watching Tani Oluwaseyi

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Villarreal have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Renato Veiga signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Renato Veiga commits to Villarreal for another 5 years.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Villarreal

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Villarreal

Renato Veiga 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Ionuţ Radu

Villarreal asked and Celta 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

Ismael Campos steps up from the Villarreal academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ismael Campos 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.

In brief