The Real Santander Post
Squad24 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dilan Tapia
81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Real Santander lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jan 2028
Freddy Espinal asks to leave Real Santander
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Freddy Espinal runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Real Santander
Camilo Durán 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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Real Santander
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market24 Jan 2028
Real Santander promote Brian Borja from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brian Borja has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Jan 2028
One of our own: Duvan Ramirez joins the Real Santander first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Duvan Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jan 2028
Real Santander promote Wilmar Duque from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wilmar Duque has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Johao Camacho 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.
In brief
- Loan watch Juan David Lázaro has seen enough of Fortaleza CEIF
- Squad When it matters, Jaime Mora plays
- Boardroom Real Santander counting the cost