Valentín Gómez

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Marked for Valentín Gómez

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The Betis Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Pau López

There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Antony scores twice — 8.94

Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Age has not caught Isco yet — 8.88

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Natan was immovable

28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Sofyan Amrabat shuts the door

Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Betis

Giovani Lo Celso 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Negrucci gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Negrucci has just signed for Betis, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 178% of everything Betis earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match3 Oct 2026

Antony the difference as Betis beat Oviedo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Antony. 2‑0 against Oviedo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Betis Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Real Madrid come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Betis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Nicolás Ibáñez 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. Nicolás Ibáñez is living that version at Betis, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Isco signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isco and Betis agree another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Antony 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 Betis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Diego Llorente

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market10 Aug 2026

Betis may not be able to give Valentín Gómez what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Valentín Gómez wants continental football; whether Betis can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief