The Betis Herald
Match10 May 2027
Full time on the season at Betis
Position 10 on 48 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Market10 May 2027
Cucho Hernández 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 The request is on a desk at Betis, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 May 2027
A one-man rearguard from Mile Svilar
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match8 May 2027
The run at home goes on for Betis
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Betis
Giovani Lo Celso 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.
Market10 May 2027
Álvaro Fidalgo 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 Betis can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market10 May 2027
Betis promote Ismael Reyes from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ismael Reyes 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 May 2027
One of our own: Ignacio Gutiérrez joins the Betis first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ignacio Gutiérrez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Betis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Héctor Bellerín 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.
In brief
- Match Betis get the job done against Espanyol
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Álvaro Valles
- The dugout Fran García has become a man the manager trusts