The Real Murcia Courier
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Álvaro Bustos
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market14 Sep 2026
Pedro Benito hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Real Murcia can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Córdoba tell Real Murcia: Kevin Medina is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Real Murcia
Gustavão and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market14 Sep 2026
Real Murcia promote David Duran from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Duran 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ismael Serrano steps up from the Real Murcia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ismael Serrano has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Pedro León did the work nobody counts — 6.68
10 combined actions and 6.68. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Real Murcia are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Esteban Saveljich 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
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Luka Vázquez on the draw
- The dugout Mahamadou Baldé gets it from the manager
- The dugout Nazareno Durán left out for tactical reasons at Real Murcia