Daniel Tonica

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219 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

7 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Oct 2030

The knee: Jorge Sanguina out for 80 days

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

The terraces7 Oct 2030

Supporters organise against the Valladolid board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad7 Oct 2030

103 days out for Braian Miranda after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Valladolid will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match5 Oct 2030

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

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

Market7 Oct 2030

Daniel Tonica 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.

Squad7 Oct 2030

Miguel Rubio signs on for more

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

Squad7 Oct 2030

Yeray Cabanzón 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.

Match5 Oct 2030

Valladolid come up short against Cultural Leonesa

Cultural Leonesa left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings7 Oct 2030

Lucas Sanseviero beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

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The Valladolid Sentinel

19 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Aug 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jorge Sanguina

129 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.

Boardroom19 Aug 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Valladolid

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Valladolid is running low.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Braian Miranda breaks a bone — 152 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 152 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market19 Aug 2030

Terms done: David Torres is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Burgos waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Valladolid is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets19 Aug 2030

No thanks: Darío rejects the move

Valladolid had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Getafe, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Market19 Aug 2030

Daniel Tonica 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.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Miguel Rubio 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.

Squad19 Aug 2030

The step up is real for Martí Martín

At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Boardroom19 Aug 2030

Graduation day at Valladolid

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

In brief

211 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces12 Aug 2030

Supporters organise against the Valladolid board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad12 Aug 2030

A fracture rules Braian Miranda out for 159 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valladolid will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match12 Aug 2030

Every point is an argument now for Valladolid

Position 20 and 40 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market12 Aug 2030

David Torres 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.

Transfer targets12 Aug 2030

David Gil due for a Valladolid medical

Everything agreed with Cádiz, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Tempers go at Valladolid

David Alaba 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.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Daniel Tonica is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Yeray Cabanzón 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.

The dugout12 Aug 2030

Julien Ponceau 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 Valladolid, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief