The Valencia Herald
Squad26 Nov 2029
A fracture rules Óscar Mingueza out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valencia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Tempers go at Valencia
Arnaut Danjuma 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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
A row about effort at Valencia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Damián was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Nov 2029
Valencia come up short against Real Madrid
Real Madrid left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
Joan Femenías 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.
Squad26 Nov 2029
Valencia lose David Castro
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Julen Santana left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout26 Nov 2029
Somebody else is better right now than Diego López
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Market26 Nov 2029
The Arnau Martínez talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Valencia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Ayoze Pérez plays
- Market No place for Lucas Janson in the plan
- Looking ahead Pedro Díaz faces his old club