Marked for Juanmi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Apr 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Getafe
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Getafe is running low.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Juanmi says Getafe went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market3 Apr 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Getafe is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Getafe
David Soria 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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Kiko Femenía pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Loan watch3 Apr 2028
Davinchi wants to come home
“I did not go to Real Sociedad to sit and watch. I want to come back to Getafe and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 32 matches say the rest.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad13 Dec 2027
A one-man rearguard from David Soria
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad13 Dec 2027
David Soria 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 Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market13 Dec 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Martín Satriano wants continental football; whether Getafe can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match11 Dec 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Coba. 2‑1 against Villarreal, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words at Getafe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Rico is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Ninety minutes of Borja Mayoral at his very best
Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Getafe.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
“I watch every Getafe game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Real Sociedad runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad13 Dec 2027
No hiding place for Juanmi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juanmi, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Match20 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Getafe
21 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market22 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Getafe can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Juanmi, 34, rolls back the years — 7.92
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Getafe
Abdelkabir Abqar 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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Borja Mayoral out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Getafe will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match11 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Getafe's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Getafe has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Getafe have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Javi Muñoz goes up and wins it — 7.69
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.69 for the rest of it.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Getafe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Martín is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Home is on Coba's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Getafe are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match11 Sep 2027
It needed Javi Muñoz to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Granada, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market13 Sep 2027
No place for Juanmi in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juanmi has his answer from Getafe; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
Squad26 Jul 2027
Kiko Femenía breaks a bone — 73 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Jul 2027
“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 Getafe, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Mario Martín 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.
In brief
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Squad
No hiding place for Juanmi
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Squad
5 new faces, and Getafe are still learning each other
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Market
The shop window has Gustavo Blanco in it
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Triumph
Squad9 Nov 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Getafe
A 4‑1 win over Almería, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
David Soria 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 Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match7 Nov 2026
Three points for Getafe, 2‑1 the final word against Mallorca in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Christantus Uche has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match7 Nov 2026
Getafe settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Mallorca spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jorge Meré 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.
In brief
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Player ratings
Iker Losada was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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Player ratings
A costly moment from Juanmi
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Market
Still no ink between Getafe and Jorge Meré
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from David Soria
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Getafe heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Getafe
Iker Losada 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Espanyol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Getafe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Getafe pick somebody else ahead of Juanmi
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
David Soria 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 Getafe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mario Martín 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Juanmi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juanmi, and the manager let it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Getafe
Abdelkabir Abqar 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Getafe training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Getafe have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.