Pau López

Goalkeeper - Betis
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Pau López

5 Edition

The Betis Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sofyan Amrabat breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Betis sell Ezequiel Ávila for $6.0M

Ezequiel Ávila has left for Real Sociedad in a $6.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Betis say no — this time

The offer from Cultural Leonesa for Valentín Gómez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Antony 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 Betis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Adrián moves on

Real Sociedad pay $760.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

Cédric Bakambu’s goal not enough for Betis

Cédric Bakambu scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Barcelona, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Pau López wants out of the spotlight

The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.

Squad

Aitor Ruibal dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

Antony runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Betis Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sofyan Amrabat breaks a bone — 110 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Real Madrid come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Betis did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Ez Abde runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ezequiel Ávila 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 Betis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Betis

Antony 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

Natan 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