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Cenk Özkacar: What Can He Bring to Valladolid’s Defense?
One year ago, Cenk Özkacar was bought by Valencia for €5 million from Lyon after a loan spell at the club in which he played 17 games in the league. Now, the 23-year-old is heading to Real Valladolid on loan to replace Flavien Enzo Boyomo, with Valencia academy graduates Cristhian Mosquera, Yarek Gasiorowski, and César…
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Maximiliano Caufriez: What Can the Belgian Defender Bring to Valencia?
Valencia started the season last year with Gabriel Paulista, Mouctar Diakhaby, Cenk Özkacar, and Cristhian Mosquera as their first-team center-backs. Of these, Paulista departed to Atlético in January, Diakhaby’s injury will see him be left out until April of 2025, and Cenk has joined Real Valladolid on loan. Now, Valencia is stuck with 20-year-old…
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Robert Navarro: Why He Could Be a Game-Changer for Mallorca’s Attack
After a season on loan at Cádiz, Robert Navarro saw his contract expiring in 2025 at Real Sociedad and wanted to join Athletic Club for free. Before he can join them, he will be spending one season at Mallorca for less than €1 million and then join the side managed by Ernesto Valverde. In this…
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Analyzing Girona’s Summer 2024 Transfer Business
After an extraordinary campaign that saw them qualify for this year’s UEFA Champions League finishing 3rd in LaLiga, Girona have seen themselves unable to retain their most important players. Nonetheless, with the replacements for these players, they expect to challenge for a consecutive top 4 place this season and look to make a deep run…
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Flavien Enzo Boyomo: Osasuna’s Defensive Recruit
Osasuna have already signed Bryan Zaragoza on loan and Abel Bretones to replace the outgoing Johan Mojica. Now they have signed Valladolid center-back Boyomo who has had an excellent beginning to the campaign for €5 million to replace club captain David García who is heading to Qatar for less than €9 million. In this article, we…
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Orri Óskarsson: Real Sociedad’s New Icelandic Striker
There are trends that often come and go with forwards depending on how the best teams aim to set up and score goals. For instance, in the 2013/14 Premier League season, the top-scoring strikers were Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge, Wayne Rooney and Sergio Aguero, all of whom are under six-foot tall. By 2016/17, Harry…
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Marc Roca: Back in Spain and Thriving at Real Betis
After a few great seasons at Espanyol, Marc Roca was signed by Bayern Munich for €15 million, nonetheless, he wasn’t able to show his talent there after one year and a half. This led him to join Leeds United, though with Leeds getting relegated, he left one season later and joined Real Betis where he…
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Can Valery Fernández Find Protagonism Again at Mallorca?
Last year, Valery Fernández signed a new contract that will make him stay at Girona until 2030. Nonetheless, in the past two seasons, Valery has only played around 1500’ minutes, and with new signings such as Bryan Gil, Asprilla, and Danjuma it is unlikely that he will get game time. Because of this, he is…
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Analyzing Villarreal’s Summer 2024 Business
After several seasons being a regular in European competitions, Villarreal finished 8th after an outstanding end to the 2023/24 season under Marcelino García. This summer they have made many changes with the objective of returning to Europe. In this article, we will be investigating Villarreal’s summer business position by position. For each position, there…
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Analyzing Valencia’s Summer 2024 Business
Valencia have not played in Europe since 2020 when they reached the round of 16 of the Champions League. Since then, the highest position in the league has been 9th. Last season has been the closest they have been to Europe since 2019 when they ended 4th but the last few games didn’t end as…