The Burgos Courier
Market14 Sep 2026
Kévin Appin puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Burgos, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Deadline beats Burgos to Rubén Sobrino
The clock did what Cultural Leonesa would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Unai Marrero
Burgos asked and Real Sociedad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
Burgos see off Huesca
Three points for Burgos, 2‑1 the final word against Huesca in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
One of their own: Santiago Lencina
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Sergio Pérez joins the Burgos first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sergio Pérez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Burgos promote Ignacio León from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignacio León 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Burgos
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and José Gragera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Espinoza in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Curro
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Oier Luengo
- The dugout The view from the dugout