The Valencia Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Stole Dimitrievski asks to leave Valencia
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Valencia rebuffed over Karl Etta Eyong
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Levante have kept their man, and Valencia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Valencia until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
Javi Guerra wants more than Valencia 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Valencia
Arnaut Danjuma 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Eyes on Aliou Dieng again
The phone has started ringing about Aliou Dieng again, and this time the name on the line is Cultural Leonesa. Valencia are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Harvey Elliott was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pablo Maffeo slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pablo Maffeo is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Valencia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Guido Rodríguez
- Squad Ryunosuke Sato named in the team of the month
- The dugout The manager’s verdict