Branquinho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
19 Sep 2038
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Marked for Branquinho

599 Edition

The Real Santander Post

18 Jan 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad18 Jan 2038

A fracture rules José Duarte out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Real Santander will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad18 Jan 2038

Paulo Alves says Real Santander went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad18 Jan 2038

Tempers go at Real Santander

Santiago Rey 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.

In brief

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597 Edition

The Real Santander Post

4 Jan 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jan 2038

A fracture rules José Duarte out for 51 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Real Santander will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Guilherme Brito: 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 Santander have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad4 Jan 2038

Osman Addo is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Real Santander will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

In brief

596 Edition

The Real Santander Post

28 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Dec 2037

A fracture rules José Duarte out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Real Santander will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad28 Dec 2037

Edwin Hormaza keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Real Santander may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market28 Dec 2037

Manuel Borja 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 Santander can pretend not to have heard.

Market28 Dec 2037

Branquinho is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Real Santander is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom28 Dec 2037

Branquinho signs for Atletico Bucaramanga while still at Real Santander

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Branquinho has agreed terms with Atletico Bucaramanga for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad28 Dec 2037

Santiago Rey 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 Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

593 Edition

The Real Santander Post

7 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Dec 2037

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Sanchez

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Real Santander lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad7 Dec 2037

A fracture rules José Duarte out for 79 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Real Santander will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match7 Dec 2037

Real Santander up to position 2

35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

In brief