Andrew Wright

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The Valladolid Sentinel

21 Sep 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Riccardo Condorelli damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Álex Padilla

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.

Squad

Víctor Meseguer says Valladolid 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.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Juanmi Latasa yet — 8.01

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Mike Trésor 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Valladolid come up short against Mirandés

Mirandés left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Ebroni Gnoan in the eights

A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Julien Ponceau linked with a move away

The name of Julien Ponceau keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Valladolid say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings

Mike Trésor leaves them behind him

Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

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The Valladolid Sentinel

4 May 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Guille Bueno breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Mirandés punish Valladolid for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Juanmi Latasa will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Valladolid escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad

Álex Padilla keeps Valladolid in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Víctor Meseguer has been here 11 seasons

137 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings

Juanmi Latasa, 36, rolls back the years — 8.04

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.04 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Mike Trésor is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.62 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Johannes Tahan hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valladolid can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Álvaro Pérez at his very best

Marked 8.77. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Valladolid.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ebroni Gnoan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief