Enzo Rivamar

Attacking Midfielder (R) - FAC Wien
7 Jul 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Enzo Rivamar

138 Edition

The FAC Wien Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at FAC Wien

Lan Piskule 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.

Squad

A row about effort at FAC Wien

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michael Svoboda was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Marco Untergrabner gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marco Untergrabner is on it.

The dugout

Enzo Rivamar knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FAC Wien, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Lan Piskule question follows FAC Wien around

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

Match

Continental football is in reach for FAC Wien

46 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

Market

Tristan Osmani placed on the list

FAC Wien have made Tristan Osmani available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

Senol Hasanoski has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FAC Wien will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Market

Still no ink between FAC Wien and Leshano Simons

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FAC Wien, another week without a signature from Leshano Simons.

In brief

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The Valladolid Sentinel

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Juanmi Latasa says no to Real Sociedad

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Juanmi Latasa had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Enzo Rivamar asks to leave Valladolid

“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 targets

Door shut on Axel Poza

Valladolid asked and Arenteiro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Valladolid turn down Guadalajara for Kaj de Rooij

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A row about effort at Valladolid

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juanmi Latasa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Arenas Club join the queue for Lucas Sanseviero

Add another name to the list: Arenas Club have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lucas Sanseviero. The answer from Valladolid has not changed — yet.

Squad

Home is on Abdoul Kialy Koné's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Valladolid are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Valladolid

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Mark Travers is in the works

Valladolid have made the call to Brighton. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

98 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Valladolid bid $21.7M for Aitor Fernández

The offer went to Osasuna this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Stipe Biuk says no to Sanluqueño

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Stipe Biuk had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ruly at that price

Valladolid offered $20.4M; Arenas Club said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Villarreal come back empty-handed

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

The dugout

Stanko Jurić: 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.” Valladolid have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Juanmi Latasa honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Valladolid had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gonzalo Aquilino

Valladolid asked and Espanyol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Enzo Rivamar asks to leave Valladolid

“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.

Boardroom

Valladolid go back to the board over Ruly

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $44.8M — a club that wants Ruly enough to be asked twice.

In brief

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The Valladolid Sentinel

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Valladolid refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 45 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Stipe Biuk 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 Valladolid can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Nobody wins at Valladolid

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

Boardroom

Retu will join Valladolid for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Retu has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Valladolid have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Valladolid to Aitor Fernández

The clock did what Osasuna would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

The dugout

Trilli 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.

Squad

Valladolid are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings

Stipe Biuk takes the honours

Marked 7.23 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Valladolid had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

Jaime Suárez on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jaime Suárez after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief