The Valencia Herald
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Valencia make their move for Samu Aghehowa
$38.9M on the table at Porto. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Unai Simón
Valencia asked and Athletic Bilbao said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Valencia agree $2.6M for David Alaba
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mallorca watching Arnaut Danjuma
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Valencia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Valencia say no — this time
The offer from KFUM Oslo for Cristian Rivero was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Arnaut Danjuma stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnaut Danjuma and Valencia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Maffeo 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 Valencia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Valencia promote Martín Aguilar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martín Aguilar has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Martí Esteban joins the Valencia first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martí Esteban is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout Arnaut Danjuma knocks on the manager's door
- Squad A season on the outside for Pablo Maffeo
- Squad A wage question at Valencia