The Racing Santander Courier
Market7 Sep 2026
Racing Santander say no — this time
The offer from Grodig for Jorge Salinas was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sergio Canales falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Racing Santander
Álex Domínguez 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
312% of the income goes out in wages at Racing Santander
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Manu Hernando at his very best
Marked 8.70. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Racing Santander.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Andrés Martín
Marked 8.30 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Juan Carlos Arana at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Racing Santander.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Asier Villalibre
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asier Villalibre, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Sergio Canales runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Juan Carlos Arana rescues a point for Racing Santander
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Andrés Martín
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Manu Hernando