Izei Ramos

Goalkeeper - Sevilla
24 Nov 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Izei Ramos

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The Sevilla Courier

31 May 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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

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The Sevilla Courier

13 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ademola Lookman is on his way

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

Squad

A falling-out at Sevilla

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

The dugout

Ez Abde gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ez Abde is on it.

Market

Brennan Johnson linked with a move away

The name of Brennan Johnson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sevilla say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

No hiding place for Izei Ramos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Izei Ramos, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

Liel Abada faces his old club

Rayo Vallecano next, and one man in the Sevilla dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

A door opens for Fer Niño

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Marcos Denia asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Iván Villar: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Sevilla will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief