Dylan Patel

Central Midfielder - Arouca
23 Oct 2028
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Marked for Dylan Patel

113 Edition

The Arouca Chronicle

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Sep 2028

Ignacio de Arruabarrena keeps Arouca in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match23 Sep 2028

The wait goes on for Arouca

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.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Dylan Patel keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Arouca may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Arouca

Javi Sánchez 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.

Match23 Sep 2028

A bad afternoon for Arouca against Benfica

1‑3 to Benfica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings25 Sep 2028

A masterclass from Tiago Almeida

Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings25 Sep 2028

Alfonso Trezza 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.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Jannes Wieckhoff left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Jannes Wieckhoff will call it something else in private.

Match19 Sep 2028

Tiago Almeida rescues a point for Arouca

It needed Tiago Almeida to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Alanyaspor, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
106 Edition

The Arouca Chronicle

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Arouca

Lee Hyun-Ju 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

The manager makes an example of Dylan Patel

“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.

Market7 Aug 2028

The Taichi Fukui question follows Arouca around

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

In brief

94 Edition

The Arouca Chronicle

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 May 2028

Pablo Gozálbez: 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.” Arouca have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad15 May 2028

Tempers go at Arouca

Javi Sánchez 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.

Squad15 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Dylan Patel

“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.

In brief

79 Edition

The Arouca Chronicle

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Jan 2028

Radosław Żelezny keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Arouca may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

Nobody could get near Alfonso Trezza

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Ignacio de Arruabarrena 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 Arouca this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market31 Jan 2028

As if he never left: Filippo Grosso returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Filippo Grosso is a Arouca player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

A masterclass from Lee Hyun-Ju

Marked 9.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings31 Jan 2028

One of those days for Javi Sánchez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match29 Jan 2028

Arouca see off Chaves

Three points for Arouca, 2‑1 the final word against Chaves in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market31 Jan 2028

Arouca buy the years ahead of Dylan Patel

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad31 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Amadou Danté

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

In brief