Iván Torres

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Getafe U18
11 Apr 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Iván Torres

36 Edition

The Getafe Post

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Iván Torres

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

Squad

Ramón Terrats in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Martín Satriano 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 Getafe can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Getafe

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arda Güler was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Mallorca take the points off Getafe

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Higinio 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Daniel Campos to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

A smaller club would suit David Soria now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether Getafe can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Abdelkabir Abqar

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Abdelkabir Abqar.

In brief

Back issues
35 Edition

The Getafe Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Iván Torres out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Getafe lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Manuel Torres is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Manuel Torres

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at Getafe

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Orel Mangala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

The Enes Ünal talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Getafe know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Juanmi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Getafe 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

Iván Azón knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Iván Azón trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Johan Mojica

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Mallorca in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

34 Edition

The Getafe Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Iván Torres

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

Match

A hiding for Getafe

Beaten 1‑4 by Betis, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Tempers go at Getafe

David Alaba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Arda Güler — 7.03

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 15 actions, 7.03, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Market

Abdelkabir Abqar 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 Getafe can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Getafe training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arda Güler 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 dugout

No hiding place for Ramón Terrats

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Getafe dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Michał Perchel wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Getafe can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

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