Emil Audero

Goalkeeper - Rayo Vallecano
24 Nov 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Emil Audero

16 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrei Raţiu has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Rayo Vallecano can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rayo Vallecano

Raúl De Tomás 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.

The dugout

Emil Audero gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Giorgi Tsitaishvili gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Giorgi Tsitaishvili is on it.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Jorge De Frutos

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Levante in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

Marcos Ferreira told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marcos Ferreira has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rayo Vallecano.

The dugout

A door opens for Giorgi Tsitaishvili

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Marcos Ferreira asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Loan watch

Luiz Felipe first choice at Andorra

9 starts and a season average of 6.62. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Rayo Vallecano Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Market

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 targets

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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