The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Óscar Trejo
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rayo Vallecano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Rayo Vallecano
A 2‑1 win over Zaragoza, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match7 Nov 2026
Rayo Vallecano taken apart
0‑4 to Barcelona, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match9 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Rayo Vallecano
Position 19 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market9 Nov 2026
Florian Lejeune 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 Rayo Vallecano hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Rayo Vallecano
Andrei Raţiu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Rayo Vallecano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Lejeune 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Florian Lejeune
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market9 Nov 2026
Iván Blanco steps up from the Rayo Vallecano academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Iván Blanco has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Juan Sierra joins the Rayo Vallecano first team
- Squad Etienne Eto'o makes it 100
- Boardroom Nobody left the Rayo Vallecano dressing room in a hurry