Daniel Ramos

Defensive Midfielder - Rayo Vallecano
12 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Ramos

576 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

10 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Rayo Vallecano, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
571 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

6 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Luca Nocerino is on his way

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

Market

Roger Ibañez raises the bar for Rayo Vallecano

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Rayo Vallecano heard it as anything else.

Squad

Tempers go at Rayo Vallecano

Roger Ibañez 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.

Squad

Álex Cardero signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Álex Cardero commits to Rayo Vallecano for another 2 years.

Squad

Daniel Ramos is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Rayo Vallecano academy

9 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief