Sergio Prieto

Right Midfielder - Valencia U20
29 Nov 2035
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Marked for Sergio Prieto

463 Edition

The Valencia Herald

11 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Jun 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Prieto

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Diego Conde 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.

Boardroom11 Jun 2035

Valencia agree a free transfer for Louis Griffiths

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Kane Richardson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kane Richardson and Valencia agree another 3 years.

Market11 Jun 2035

Oviedo are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Valencia will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Pasqualino Ortisi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

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462 Edition

The Valencia Herald

4 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces4 Jun 2035

Anger at Valencia spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Player ratings4 Jun 2035

Ryunosuke Sato runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom4 Jun 2035

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Valencia

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad4 Jun 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Prieto

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom4 Jun 2035

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Valencia can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Mouctar Diakhaby signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mouctar Diakhaby and Valencia agree another 2 years.

Market4 Jun 2035

Valencia turn down Leganés for Fernando Santana

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match2 Jun 2035

No end in sight to Valencia's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Valencia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad4 Jun 2035

Words at Valencia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Conde 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

461 Edition

The Valencia Herald

28 May 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings28 May 2035

Ryunosuke Sato runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 May 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Prieto

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match28 May 2035

Valencia are in real trouble now

Position 20, 25 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad28 May 2035

A one-man rearguard from Diego Conde

There were 8 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.

Squad28 May 2035

Pasqualino Ortisi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Valencia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 May 2035

A move Pedro Giménez would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Pedro Giménez is living that version at Valencia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings28 May 2035

André Almeida, 35, rolls back the years — 8.09

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.09 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market28 May 2035

Ryunosuke Sato wants more than Valencia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Match26 May 2035

Valencia and Oviedo take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

460 Edition

The Valencia Herald

21 May 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings21 May 2035

Nobody could get near Ryunosuke Sato

Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom21 May 2035

Valencia give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Squad21 May 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergio Prieto

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Valencia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad21 May 2035

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.

Squad21 May 2035

Words at Valencia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matias Mancuso 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.

Squad21 May 2035

Pepelu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pepelu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The terraces21 May 2035

Everybody has an opinion about Diego Conde

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Market21 May 2035

Mouctar Diakhaby linked with a move away

The name of Mouctar Diakhaby keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Valencia say nothing, which says plenty.

Match19 May 2035

Valencia and Gijón cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Gijón came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief