Ivan Guzmán

Right Midfielder - Valladolid
25 Sep 2028
Monday
Process
109 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Julien Ponceau asks to leave Valladolid

“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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Guilherme Fernandes

There were 8 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.

Squad

3 goals for Juanmi Latasa

The match ball belongs to Juanmi Latasa, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Valladolid sign Mattia Ciancaglini for $2.4M

The paperwork is done: Mattia Ciancaglini joins from Almagro in a deal worth $2.4M. Now comes the harder part.

Match

Valladolid find a way past Levante

Levante made Valladolid work for it, but the scoreboard read 4-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Ivan Guzmán signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Guzmán commits to Valladolid for another 1 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kenedy

“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.

Market

The Thomas Lemar talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Valladolid know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Valladolid put Csaba Szatmári up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Csaba Szatmári may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
108 Edition

The Valladolid Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Valladolid

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Ivan Guzmán is a Valladolid player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Daniel Ferrer is a Valladolid player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Biel Ibañez comes home

The shirt still fits. Biel Ibañez is back at Valladolid, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Biel Prieto comes home

The shirt still fits. Biel Prieto is back at Valladolid, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Match

Oviedo take the points off Valladolid

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Juanmi Latasa 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.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 32493. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Iván Alejo

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief