Ángel Fortuño

Key strength: Adaptability

Versatile player

At just 24, Ángel Fortuño embodies the lonely patience required of a young goalkeeper at a mid-table La Liga club. With RCD Espanyol Barcelona sitting 6th in the table, the Spanish shot-stopper has made a solitary appearance this season—90 minutes of action dwarfed by endless training sessions and bench duty as understudy to veteran Marko Dmitrovic. Valued at a modest €300,000, Fortuño's rating of 45 belies the potential the club sees in his shot-stopping ability. Behind a defense marshaled by higher-profile teammates like Carlos Romero and Javi Puado, he waits for his moment. For goalkeepers, opportunities arrive catastrophically—a red card, an injury, a loss of form—and when Fortuño's comes, he must be ready. Espanyol's comfortable position away from the relegation scrap ironically buys him time to develop in relative peace. The modern game demands goalkeepers who can command their area and distribute, but Fortuño's traditional shot-stopping foundation offers a pathway. His one appearance this season proves he hasn't been forgotten; now he must prove he's worth waiting for.