The Real Madrid Sentinel
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Real Madrid make their move for Ousmane Dembélé
$104.2M on the table at Paris Saint-Germain. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market23 Aug 2027
Carlos Espí agrees terms with Ceuta
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Real Madrid people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match21 Aug 2027
Real Madrid make home a hard place to visit
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Real Madrid
Thibaut Courtois and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
A new deal for Javier Montero
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Thibaut Courtois 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Real Madrid
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match21 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Real Madrid against Espanyol
1‑2 to Espanyol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Nil León joins the Real Madrid first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nil León is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Pablo Ortega joins the Real Madrid first team
- Market One of our own: Nil Caballero joins the Real Madrid first team
- Match The run is over for Real Madrid