Raúl Sanz

Right Midfielder - Levante U20
21 Sep 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Raúl Sanz

157 Edition

The Levante Courier

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Raúl Sanz

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

Market

Lautaro Carrera asks to leave Levante

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Terms done: Danilo Gómez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Celta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Levante is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout

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Market

Nicolás Fernández is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levante is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Nicolás Fernández has agreed to leave Levante for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

A falling-out at Levante

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

Squad

Words at Levante training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Cabello 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.

Transfer targets

Levante rebuffed over Leonardo Candellone

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

In brief

Back issues
156 Edition

The Levante Courier

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Raúl Sanz

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

Transfer targets

Levante agree $9.5M for Denzel Dumfries

The clubs have shaken hands with Real Madrid; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Levante turn down Olympiacos for Iván Romero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Mathew Ryan has said yes to Deportivo La Coruña

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Levante have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Lautaro Carrera is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Levante is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

The step up is real for Loïc Tiamuna Lubaki

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Levante

Oriol Rey 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.

Squad

Levante lose Roger Brugué

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Pablo Campos has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Levante 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.

In brief

155 Edition

The Levante Courier

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Raúl Sanz out for 30 days

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

Market

Terms done: Víctor García is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sevilla waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Levante is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Levante baulk at the price for Agustín Módica

Sassuolo wanted more than $31.8M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market

Juan Albarracín puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Levante, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Rodrigo Pérez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodrigo Pérez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Levante the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Rodrigo Pérez signs for Valencia while still at Levante

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Rodrigo Pérez has agreed terms with Valencia for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Levante

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

Market

Axel Guerra 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 Levante can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Levante

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

In brief