Jonás Ravano

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The Girona Chronicle

18 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match16 Aug 2031

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

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

Match16 Aug 2031

A hiding for Girona

Beaten 0‑3 by Athletic Bilbao, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market18 Aug 2031

Girona say no — this time

The offer from Oviedo for Marcos Fernández was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market18 Aug 2031

Vladyslav Krapyvtsov 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 The request is on a desk at Girona, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets18 Aug 2031

Girona rebuffed over Joseph Mangondo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Sociedad have kept their man, and Girona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad18 Aug 2031

Leandro Brey 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 Girona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Aug 2031

A row about effort at Girona

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

Boardroom18 Aug 2031

Graduation day at Girona

16 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.

The dugout18 Aug 2031

No hiding place for Fran Beltrán

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

In brief

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The Girona Chronicle

2 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Jun 2031

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Girona

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market2 Jun 2031

Jonás Ravano asks to leave Girona

“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.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Leandro Brey 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 Girona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Abel Ruiz 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 dugout2 Jun 2031

Álex Moreno 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.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Stephan El Shaarawy signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stephan El Shaarawy and Girona agree another 2 years.

Market2 Jun 2031

Alan Luque told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alan Luque has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Girona.

Boardroom2 Jun 2031

Girona trim $12.8M from the budget

The money the manager was told he had is now money the manager used to have. $12.8M, gone from the table without a statement, and a dressing room that understands what it means.

Boardroom2 Jun 2031

Girona can sign again

The window is open, and with it the only month of the year when a supporter’s hopes are limited by nothing but arithmetic. The board know the arithmetic; the supporters know the hopes.

In brief

212 Edition

The Girona Chronicle

19 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom19 Aug 2030

Ibai Santiago is out at Girona

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom19 Aug 2030

A stranger takes charge at Girona

The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Leandro Brey keeps Girona in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom19 Aug 2030

Interim Coach steps up at Girona for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Market19 Aug 2030

Vladyslav Krapyvtsov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Girona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Jonás Ravano gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jonás Ravano has just signed for Girona, and for once the answer mattered.

Match17 Aug 2030

The wait goes on for Girona

4 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.

Squad19 Aug 2030

Words exchanged at Girona

Leandro Brey 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.

Player ratings19 Aug 2030

Nobody could get near Gabriël Misehouy

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

  • Market As if he never left: Jonás Ravano returns
  • Squad A row about effort at Girona
  • Boardroom 8 academy graduates step up at Girona