Jon Vidal

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Villarreal U20
15 Feb 2027
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Marked for Jon Vidal

10 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad5 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon Vidal

19 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Nobody wants to play Villarreal right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Villarreal

Pape Guèye 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Goal number 100 for Georges Mikautadze

100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Match3 Oct 2026

Villarreal get the job done against Celta

A 1‑0 win over Celta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

One of those days for Georges Mikautadze

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Too much change too quickly at Villarreal

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ayoze Pérez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Víctor Lozano has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Víctor Lozano on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

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9 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad28 Sep 2026

The knee: Jon Vidal out for 26 days

26 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Gerard Moreno wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Gerard Moreno found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Mallorca went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Vintage Gerard Moreno — 7.92

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.92, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match26 Sep 2026

Villarreal make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Villarreal have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Villarreal

Pape Guèye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match26 Sep 2026

Villarreal find a way past Mallorca

Mallorca made Villarreal work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match26 Sep 2026

Villarreal keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Georges Mikautadze was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market28 Sep 2026

Luiz Júnior has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Villarreal can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

In brief

8 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad21 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon Vidal

35 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Villarreal

Ayoze Pérez 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Villarreal find a way past Betis

Betis made Villarreal work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Georges Mikautadze at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Villarreal.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Víctor Lozano kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Sergi Cardona dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market21 Sep 2026

The Ayoze Pérez question follows Villarreal around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ayoze Pérez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead21 Sep 2026

Gerard Moreno faces his old club

Mallorca 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.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

No place in the plan for Gerard Moreno

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The Villarreal Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad14 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon Vidal

42 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 ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Tani Oluwaseyi

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Gerard Moreno, 34, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Villarreal — 7.91

1 for Pape Guèye, marked 7.91, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market14 Sep 2026

Santi Comesaña wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Villarreal hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Villarreal rebuffed over Justo Giani

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universidad Catolica have kept their man, and Villarreal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match12 Sep 2026

Villarreal find a way past Oviedo

Oviedo made Villarreal work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Aarón Ochoa

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market14 Sep 2026

One of our own: Marc Castro joins the Villarreal first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marc Castro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief