The Villarreal Chronicle
Squad29 Mar 2027
147 days out for Péter Gulácsi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Villarreal will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The knee: Hugo Suárez out for 14 days
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Villarreal lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Villarreal
Péter Gulácsi 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.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Derby week at Villarreal
Valencia next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Alberto Moleiro has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Villarreal will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Villarreal keep their word to Jonás Luna
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
7 goals on loan for Tani Oluwaseyi
11 appearances at Andorra and the goals keep coming. Villarreal are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Carlos Romero talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Villarreal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Dani Parejo faces his old club
Valencia next, and one man in the Villarreal dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- The dugout Dani Parejo has been promised minutes
- Loan watch Thiago Fernández keeps scoring at Levante
- Loan watch Pau Navarro has made Andorra’s shirt his own