Iván Ferrer

Goalkeeper - Racing Santander
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Iván Ferrer

810 Edition

The Racing Santander Courier

3 Feb 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jorge Salinas breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Joaquín Piñeyro scores twice — 8.19

Two goals and a mark of 8.19 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

6 matches without a win for Racing Santander

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Racing Santander are no longer polite ones.

Squad

12 seasons of Idrissa Sabaly

313 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Racing Santander know what they have.

Squad

Gustavo Puerta signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gustavo Puerta and Racing Santander agree another 2 years.

Match

Joaquín Piñeyro’s goal not enough for Racing Santander

Joaquín Piñeyro scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Villarreal, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Tempers go at Racing Santander

Konstantinos Angelakis 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.

Player ratings

Vitor Figueiredo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

The Idrissa Sabaly question follows Racing Santander around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Idrissa Sabaly’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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790 Edition

The Racing Santander Courier

16 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Joaquín Piñeyro keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Racing Santander may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Felipe Díaz

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Joaquín Piñeyro yet — 7.87

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maguette Guèye is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Racing Santander find a way past Atlético Madrid

Atlético Madrid made Racing Santander work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Julen Sánchez out for 43 days

The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Julen Sánchez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Jorge Salinas

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Noël Atom was immovable

13 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Tiebe Coppin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

789 Edition

The Racing Santander Courier

9 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The run at home goes on for Racing Santander

34 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian Álvarez

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Racing Santander lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Racing Santander

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Deportivo La Coruña kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Racing Santander will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

Felipe Díaz keeps Racing Santander in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A fracture rules Pedro Vidal out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Racing Santander will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Francisco Guerrero says Racing Santander went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Racing Santander and Deportivo La Coruña take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

The Jorge Salinas question follows Racing Santander around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jorge Salinas’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Iván Ferrer is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Racing Santander has been clear about where Iván Ferrer stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief