The Celta Herald
Match17 Oct 2026
Celta taken apart
0‑4 to Villarreal, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ionuţ Radu stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Celta
Ilaix Moriba 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Hugo Cuenca at Celta
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hugo Cuenca is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market19 Oct 2026
Sebastián Cáceres has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Celta can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Ferran Jutglà
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ferran Jutglà, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Aleix Febas 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Celta dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑4 Nil Montes left the room before anybody could ask which.
In brief
- The dugout Hugo Álvarez gets picked when it counts
- The terraces The glare is on Ionuţ Radu
- Market The Javi Rodríguez story refuses to die