Pedro Dacrema

Central Defender - Deportivo Riestra
23 Jun 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pedro Dacrema

195 Edition

The Deportivo Riestra Courier

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Antony Alonso out for 89 days

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

Squad

Omar Bautista Gerez breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Deportivo Riestra tear Arsenal apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑0 against Arsenal, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Iván Fernández takes the afternoon — 8.71

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Iván Fernández provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

The view from the top for Deportivo Riestra

26 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad

Nicolás Molina takes the match ball home

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

Market

Lautaro García 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 Deportivo Riestra can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nicolás Molina at his very best

Marked 9.97. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Deportivo Riestra.

Match

6 goals as Deportivo Riestra and Arsenal go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Deportivo Riestra and Arsenal, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

Back issues
127 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Clerc

44 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Valladolid

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Market

Stipe Biuk is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Valladolid is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Andrei Raţiu is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Valladolid will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Pedro Dacrema puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Valladolid, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Andrei Raţiu wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Valladolid hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

Valladolid come up short against Las Palmas

Las Palmas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Julien Ponceau was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Thiago Ojeda

“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

121 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Valladolid may not be able to give Augusto Batalla what he wants

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Franco Déboli

“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.

Market

Pedro Dacrema told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Pedro Dacrema has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Valladolid.

The dugout

When it matters, Thiago Ojeda plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Juanmi Latasa question follows Valladolid around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Juanmi Latasa’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead

Antonio Gala faces his old club

Castellón next, and one man in the Valladolid dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

International call for Augusto Batalla

Augusto Batalla joins up with his country. Valladolid lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.

The dugout

A door opens for Xavi Grande

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Valladolid put Darío Melo up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Darío Melo may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief