The Real Santander Post
Market22 Mar 2027
Julian Angulo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Real Santander is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Pablo Ramirez breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Real Santander
Andrés Macea 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Jefferson Sánchez 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Julian Angulo at his very best
Marked 8.55. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Real Santander.
Match20 Mar 2027
No time for Valledupar to settle
The goal that put Valledupar ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Real Santander equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
115% of the income goes out in wages at Real 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 ratings22 Mar 2027
Harlem Salas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Breinner Román gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Real Santander and Valledupar
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Freddy Espinal
- The terraces The press have found their man in Julian Angulo