Dani Requena

Central Midfielder - Villarreal
31 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dani Requena

37 Edition

The Levante Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

10 matches without a win for Levante

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Levante are no longer polite ones.

Match

Levante are in real trouble now

Position 18, 22 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

A falling-out at Levante

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Karl Etta Eyong

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

One of those days for Karl Etta Eyong

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at Levante training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Cabello 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.

The dugout

Dani Requena 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.

Match

Honours even between Levante and Alavés

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Mathew Ryan asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Levante Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Levante throw away a 3-goal lead

3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Alavés the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Levante will enjoy reviewing.

Match

Levante are in real trouble now

Position 18, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Karl Etta Eyong takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

No end in sight to Levante's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Levante has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Levante

7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levante

Jeremy Toljan 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.

Player ratings

Karl Etta Eyong in the eights

A performance of 9.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The terraces

Levante supporters have found a favourite in Karl Etta Eyong

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Karl Etta Eyong 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Diego Jiménez

“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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Levante Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Pablo Campos keeps Levante in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout

Luis Solignac: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Levante have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

No end in sight to Levante's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Levante has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Jeremy Toljan 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 Levante this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Levante

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

A bad afternoon for Levante against Athletic Bilbao

0‑2 to Athletic Bilbao, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Petar Ratkov is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Antonio Flores faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Antonio Flores after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Federico Pereyra signs on for more

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

In brief