The Getafe Post
Market28 Aug 2028
Borussia Dortmund come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Getafe did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Kiko Femenía yet — 7.90
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Getafe
Gabri Veiga 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
The wait goes on for Getafe
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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Nil Cortés is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at Getafe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óscar Aranda is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Getafe lose Stathis Beleris
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market28 Aug 2028
Deportivo La Coruña are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Getafe will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market28 Aug 2028
Getafe put Ramón Terrats up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ramón Terrats may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Market The Borja Mayoral question follows Getafe around
- Match Getafe and Betis cancel each other out
- Player ratings Óscar Aranda runs at them all day