The Real Madrid Sentinel
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Real Madrid
The unbeaten run reaches 28. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Real Madrid agree $32.2M for Andriy Lunin
The clubs have shaken hands with Wolverhampton; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
No thanks: Bremer rejects the move
Real Madrid had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Juventus, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Athletic Bilbao tell Real Madrid: Oihan Sancet 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Nobody wins at Real Madrid
16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market23 Aug 2027
Not going: Arda Güler stays at Real Madrid
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Tenerife had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Federico Valverde 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 Real Madrid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Antony wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Match Real Madrid see off Elche
- Match Real Madrid keep winning on the road
- Market One of our own: Iván Álvarez joins the Real Madrid first team