César Galíndez

Left Midfielder - Racing Santander
11 Jul 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for César Galíndez

301 Edition

The Racing Santander Courier

3 May 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Racing Santander finish in position 17

26 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad

Francisco Peña arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Francisco Peña has, at Racing Santander, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A row about effort at Racing Santander

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Ramón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at Racing Santander

Álvaro Mantilla and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Andrés Martín at his very best

Marked 8.49. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Racing Santander.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Noam Bonnet

“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.

Market

A long bet from Racing Santander on Enzo Lorenzo

He is 19, and nobody at Racing Santander signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Racing Santander sign Francisco Peña, one for the future

Francisco Peña is 19, and Racing Santander 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.

Match

Racing Santander share the spoils with Mallorca

A 1‑1 draw with Mallorca leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
257 Edition

The Racing Santander Courier

30 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ibai Moreno gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ibai Moreno has just signed for Racing Santander, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Tobías Rodríguez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Racing Santander, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

An offer of $940.0K for Ignacio Ramírez

Racing Santander have gone to Cultural Leonesa with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Racing Santander make their move for Agustín Nogueira

$810.0K on the table at Las Palmas. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Racing Santander

Íñigo Vicente and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Racing Santander rebuffed over Martín Leal

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Villarreal have kept their man, and Racing Santander go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Racing Santander

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Ramón was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Racing Santander count the cost of losing César Galíndez

37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Racing Santander buy the years ahead of Ibai Moreno

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief