The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Osasuna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rayo Vallecano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Luiz Felipe turns Ceuta down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Santiago Fernández
Rayo Vallecano asked and Talleres said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrei Raţiu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Rayo Vallecano
Raúl De Tomás and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Rayo Vallecano ask about Jacobo Ramón
A loan enquiry to Como: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Rayo Vallecano say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Rayo Vallecano
Unai López has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Emil Audero still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Rayo Vallecano would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- Squad Augusto Batalla is starting to look at home
- Looking ahead An away day at Celta next for Rayo Vallecano
- The dugout The manager comes out for Álvaro García