The Real Madrid Sentinel
Squad27 Jul 2037
A fracture rules Gabriel Ruiz out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Real Madrid will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad27 Jul 2037
Ismael Domínguez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Real Madrid have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Jul 2037
Tempers go at Real Madrid
Aurélien Tchouaméni 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.
Market27 Jul 2037
Tim Iroegbunam has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Real Madrid they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market27 Jul 2037
Ceuta come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Real Madrid did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad27 Jul 2037
Words at Real Madrid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Osimhen 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.
In brief
- Market The Orri Óskarsson conversation is coming
- Market The Vinícius Júnior talk will not go away