La Liga 2016/17

Phil Neville appointed Assistant Gaffer at Valencia

Triabal ,Who has Miranda joined ?

Valencia president Salvo as well as Rufete and Ayala on the way out of the club. They aren't happy how Lim and Mendes are doing business.

Probably not happy the Rodrigo Caio transfer fell through due to a failed medical. Caio now having a medical at Atletico.

Mendes basically controls the club now. All players coming in are his clients.

New Rayo jersey. Each jersey sold will see €7 donated to charities represented by each of the seven colours.


The colours represent:

Cancer (Red)
Disability (Orange)
Depression (Yellow)
The environment (Green)
Child abuse (Blue)
Domestic violence (Pink)
The six colours combine to form a rainbow, which represents gay equality.

There's also a 3rd jersey. Each sale will see a donation go towards the fight against cancer.


If that isn't enough to make you like them...there's this taken from Sid Lowe's review of the La Liga season

"Carmen Martínez Ayudo is 85, she’s a widow, and she lives in a small flat on Calle Sierra de Palomeras in the working-class neighbourhood of Vallecas, to the east of Madrid, just as she has done for the last 50 years. Or at least she did until the bailiffs came to evict her, with the help of a load of policemen, after her son defaulted on €40,000 that, unbeknownst to her, he’d secured on her home via a local loan shark. So it was that Carmen was out on the street, until a group of men came to her rescue. Those men are footballers and they play for Rayo Vallecano, coach Paco Jémez leading them into finding a new flat for Carmen, paying her rent and paying regular visits ever since. “We couldn’t just stand there,” Jémez said"

Banners were hung all round the three-sided ground. “Carmen Stays”, said one. “The pride of a neighbourhood”, said another. At the end, another declared: “The evictions of a sick state/the solidarity of a working-class neighbourhood.”

A football club has vowed to pay the rent for an 85-year-old woman evicted from her home because her son could not pay his debts.

Carmen Martínez Ayudo was driven from her home after her son had used it as security for a €40,000 loan from an individual.

Ayudo, from Vallecas – a working-class area of Madrid, Spain – was later told the local football club Rayo Vallecano would pay her rent for the rest of her life. She said: “I’ve no more tears to cry.”

Ayudo’s plight came after ownership of the home was transferred to her son following the death of her husband. Ayudo knew nothing of the debt, which now stands at €70,000, or the eviction until police arrived to remove her from the property a month ago.

A local anti-eviction committee managed to win her a brief reprieve, during which she says she was terrified and unable to sleep. On Friday, seven police vans arrived for the eviction.

Ayudo, who worked as a cleaner, said: “I’ve worked all my life, getting up at 6am to work like a slave and then all of a sudden they come to take everything away when all I want is to be left in peace.”

“We’re not going to stand around and do nothing, we’re going to help this woman,” said Paco Jémez, the coach at Rayo, currently 13th in the Spanish first division. “Not just me but the technical team and the players. We’ll give her a hand to find a place where she can live in dignity and not feel abandoned.”

Jémez added that he would like to help more people but it wasn’t possible. “In this case, because she’s from the neighbourhood, as a club we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to help.”

There were 67,000 evictions in Spain in 2013 while an estimated 3.4m properties stand empty.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/23/spanish-football-club-rayo-vallecano-helps-woman-85-evicted-son-loses-house-debt

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jun/20/2014-15-review-la-liga-the-sids

Edited by tribalarmy - 01 Jul 2015 at 3:09pm

Great to see Transfer Embargos working so well

Filipe Luis returns to Atletico. Great signing.

Valencia have quietly spent 100m+ this summer already. Guess Peter Lim has opened the checkbook now with the FFP rules being a bit more lax. Wonder how they will do this year, Nuno seems like the real deal as a coach.

Would still like to see another striker come in,I'm not Negredo's biggest fan.Expecting a few departures too,including Piatti unfortunately