Jorge Cabello

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12 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jorge Cabello

16 Edition

The Levante Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pablo Campos

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Carlos Álvarez 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

A bad afternoon for Levante against Athletic Bilbao

0‑1 to Athletic Bilbao, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Levante training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kervin Arriaga 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Gaizka Larrazabal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gaizka Larrazabal, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Iván Romero runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Valladolid

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Valladolid are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Valladolid training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ethan Pinnock 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.

Player ratings

Vegard Erlien in the eights

A performance of 9.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Jorge Cabello 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Julien Ponceau

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Stanko Jurić

“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.

Match

Honours even between Valladolid and Deportivo La Coruña

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

Squad

Stanko Jurić dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

Nico Serrano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

14 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jorge Cabello 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

233% of the income goes out in wages at Valladolid

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Víctor Meseguer 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.

Player ratings

Nico Serrano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Xavi Sintes was immovable

17 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Valladolid

9 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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Levante Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Pablo Campos

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

The wait goes on for Levante

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Carlos Álvarez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Levante

Carlos Álvarez 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.

Match

Levante come up short against Atlético Madrid

Atlético Madrid left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Gaizka Larrazabal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gaizka Larrazabal, and the manager let it.

Squad

Pablo Campos is still paying for one afternoon at Levante

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Karl Etta Eyong

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings

Carlos Espí could have had three

5 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

7 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nothing got past Víctor Meseguer

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Ethan Pinnock 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Valladolid

Jorge Cabello 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Sergi Canós at his very best

Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Valladolid.

Match

Valladolid find a way past Cádiz

Cádiz made Valladolid work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Ethan Pinnock

Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Amath N'Diaye

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.78, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Pablo Tomeo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Tomeo, and the manager let it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Valladolid

10 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.

In brief