The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2037
Francesco Lattisi damages knee ligaments — 91 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 91 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.
Market10 Aug 2037
Alejandro Molina puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rayo Vallecano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2037
Alejandro Molina keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rayo Vallecano may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Aug 2037
Álex Cardero 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.
Market10 Aug 2037
Only the photograph left for Philippe Giraud
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Philippe Giraud will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rayo Vallecano the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Aug 2037
Real improvement from Daniel Ramos at Rayo Vallecano
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Ramos is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
- Market The Fran Pérez story refuses to die
- Market Michy Vertonghen leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Rayo Vallecano keep producing them