The Vélez Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Emanuel Mammana raises the bar for Vélez
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Vélez heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rodrigo Aliendro signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rodrigo Aliendro commits to Vélez for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Vélez
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emanuel Mammana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Claudio Baeza 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 Vélez this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Empoli join the queue for Joaquín García
Add another name to the list: Empoli have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joaquín García. The answer from Vélez has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Matías Pellegrini runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Vélez and Claudio Baeza
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Emanuel Mammana knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emanuel Mammana trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Luis Alberto González was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Vélez dressing room was either.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Vélez?
- Squad A first senior shirt for Simón Escobar
- Market Nobody at Vélez has picked up the phone to Lautaro Ahumada