Daniel Gil

Right Midfielder - Rayo Vallecano U20
22 Sep 2038
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Gil

626 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

26 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Roger Ibañez 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 Rayo Vallecano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Daniel Gil at Rayo Vallecano

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Gil is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Adrian Helm 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

Back issues
619 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

7 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Roger Ibañez wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Rayo Vallecano hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

Francesco Lattisi 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 Rayo Vallecano can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Francesco Lattisi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rayo Vallecano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Roger Ibañez 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 Rayo Vallecano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jozhua Vertrouwd stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jozhua Vertrouwd and Rayo Vallecano agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A move Jaime Santiago 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. Jaime Santiago is living that version at Rayo Vallecano, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

578 Edition

The Andorra Chronicle

24 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Luka Serrano

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

A fracture rules Eduardo Fernández out for 55 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andorra will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Georgi Chorbadzhiyski yet — 8.68

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.68 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Aingeru Olabarrieta 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 Andorra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Aingeru Olabarrieta was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.84. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Álex Calvo

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Andorra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski 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.

Match

Honours even between Andorra and Betis

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

The Lautaro De León talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Andorra know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief