The Valladolid Sentinel
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Valladolid
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market21 Aug 2028
Ivan Guzmán is a Valladolid player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market21 Aug 2028
Daniel Ferrer is a Valladolid player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market21 Aug 2028
Biel Ibañez comes home
The shirt still fits. Biel Ibañez is back at Valladolid, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market21 Aug 2028
Biel Prieto comes home
The shirt still fits. Biel Prieto is back at Valladolid, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match19 Aug 2028
Oviedo take the points off Valladolid
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Juanmi Latasa 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 32493. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
The spotlight tightens on Iván Alejo
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
- Squad Thomas Lemar is off the mark for Valladolid
- Squad Somebody is after Juanmi Latasa’s shirt
- Squad Carmine Cretella asks for a word with the manager