47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Valladolid lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Marcos André takes the afternoon — 9.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marcos André provided it, and the 9.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Valladolid scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mateo Hernández 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Juanmi Latasa was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.65. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Valladolid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yeray Cabanzón 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.
63 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Valladolid lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Clerc was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The words a physio says slowly. 78 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Deportivo La Coruña left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Valladolid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanko Jurić 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Diego Santana after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Carlos Franco
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Nobody at Valladolid will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Valladolid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanko Jurić 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.
Something was said to Marcos André and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Diego Santana after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Cultural Leonesa will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Valladolid were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oihan Ruiz 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.
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.