Sergio Ruiz

Defensive Midfielder - Las Palmas
8 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Sergio Ruiz

26 Edition

The Las Palmas Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Manu Fuster runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Viti Rozada hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Las Palmas get their man

The chase for Jesús Owono ended with $2.0M changing hands and Alavés out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Match

7 unbeaten for Las Palmas

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Las Palmas did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Sergio Barcia 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Jonathan Viera goes

Racing Santander paid $450.0K and Las Palmas took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match

Las Palmas cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Álex Suárez 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.

Squad

Álex Suárez 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.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Las Palmas Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kirian hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Las Palmas can pretend not to have heard.

Match

The wait goes on for Las Palmas

8 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.

Squad

Dinko Horkaš 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sergio Ruiz

“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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Las Palmas against Almería

0‑1 to Almería, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Manu Fuster runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

3 Edition

The Las Palmas Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Porto come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Dinko Horkaš 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 Las Palmas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Las Palmas

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dinko Horkaš

“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

Las Palmas promote Oihan Domínguez from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oihan Domínguez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Raúl Vázquez joins the Las Palmas first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raúl Vázquez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief