The Sevilla Courier
Boardroom31 May 2032
Sevilla book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
Squad31 May 2032
Ez Abde is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sevilla will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market31 May 2032
Only the photograph left for Martim Neto
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martim Neto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sevilla the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout31 May 2032
Izei Ramos says Sevilla went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad31 May 2032
Tempers go at Sevilla
Lucien Agoumé 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.
Market31 May 2032
A summer argument in the Sevilla goal
7 clean sheets in 13 appearances on loan. Whoever starts the first game of the season will have had to earn it, which is not something anybody at Sevilla could say last August.
Market31 May 2032
A season away well spent by Raúl Moro
39 games, 21 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Sevilla now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
The dugout31 May 2032
When it matters, Marc Bernal plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad31 May 2032
Too much change too quickly at Sevilla
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout Mario De Luis knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Marc Bernal talk will not go away
- The dugout A promise honoured for Diego Aznar