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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Sergi Canós’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Valladolid.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Guille Bueno 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Valladolid have made Marcos André available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sergi Canós finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Valladolid have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 7 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Stanko Jurić 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emerson out for 37 days
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Emerson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Alejo, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 98 days on the sidelines for Víctor Meseguer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Stanko Jurić 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marcos André 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eduardo Lorenzo is 16, and Valladolid have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcos André commits to Valladolid for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Jerónimo Pourtau joins from Temperley in a deal worth $430.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stanko Jurić 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Julien Ponceau
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Stanko Jurić
Still no offer on the table, and Stanko Jurić’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marcos André knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marcos André trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Amath N'Diaye and Valladolid agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Stanko Jurić 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 Valladolid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Valladolid have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.