Facundo Romeo

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The Las Palmas Herald

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

83 days out for Jefté Betancor after a fracture

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

Market

Tomas Valdecantos asks to leave Las Palmas

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Las Palmas

Manu Fuster 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.

Transfer targets

Cremonese tell Las Palmas: Lapo Nava is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Adrián Suárez attracts admirers

The name of Adrián Suárez has come up in conversations Las Palmas were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

A row about effort at Las Palmas

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

The dugout

Sandro has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Las Palmas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Manu Fuster talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Las Palmas know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Match

Las Palmas in the hunt for Europe

Position 4, 83 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

In brief

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The Las Palmas Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Sandro scores twice — 8.24

Two goals and a mark of 8.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Las Palmas cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Iván Jaime is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Enrique Clemente pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at Las Palmas

Manu Fuster 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.

Squad

Facundo Romeo arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Facundo Romeo has, at Las Palmas, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match

Sandro sends Las Palmas past Racing Santander

It finished 3‑2, and it was Sandro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Las Palmas.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Iker Bravo

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jefté Betancor

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

In brief