Hugo Suárez

Central Defender - Villarreal U18
15 May 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Hugo Suárez

35 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ahead

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 dugout

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 dugout

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 watch

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.

Market

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 ahead

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

Back issues
34 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

156 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.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hugo Suárez

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Villarreal lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Alberto Moleiro beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The goals have deserted Villarreal

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Villarreal can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

A bad afternoon for Villarreal against Girona

0‑1 to Girona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Villarreal

With 6 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Aimar Carrasco left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nathan-Dylan Saliba

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

The dugout

Sergi Cardona gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sergi Cardona is on it.

In brief

33 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Hugo Suárez out for 32 days

32 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.

Squad

Manuel Soto breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Villarreal sell Ayoze Pérez for $2.0M

Ayoze Pérez has left for Viking in a $2.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Alberto Moleiro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alberto Moleiro and Villarreal agree another 5 years.

Match

6 unbeaten for Villarreal

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Villarreal did not have in the autumn.

Match

Villarreal make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Georges Mikautadze

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tajon Buchanan wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Villarreal know it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Juan Foyth

17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

  • The dugout When it matters, Santi Comesaña plays
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Luiz Júnior