Pablo Maffeo

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18 Oct 2026
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Marked for Pablo Maffeo

11 Edition

The Valencia Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Aliou Dieng out for 59 days

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

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Luis Rioja, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match10 Oct 2026

Nobody wants to play Valencia right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Valencia

Arnaut Danjuma and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match10 Oct 2026

Valencia find a way past Levante

Levante made Valencia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market12 Oct 2026

Valencia promote Hugo Gil from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hugo Gil has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market12 Oct 2026

Valencia promote José Giménez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. José Giménez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Pablo Maffeo in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Hugo Duro was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.09. 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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Valencia Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Sep 2026

Aliou Dieng breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match5 Sep 2026

Valencia taken apart

0‑3 to Athletic Bilbao, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market7 Sep 2026

Javi Guerra asks to leave Valencia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market7 Sep 2026

Valencia turn down Las Palmas for Diego López

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

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Valencia close the window on a squad of their own making

16 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Arnaut Danjuma 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Valencia rebuffed over Gerard Martín

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Barcelona have kept their man, and Valencia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Valencia

Mario Soriano 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Pablo Maffeo slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pablo Maffeo is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

  • Boardroom Doors closed at Valencia
  • The dugout Luis Rioja is still being punished for one mistake
  • The dugout The view from the dugout