The Real Madrid Sentinel
Match19 Aug 2028
Nobody wins at Real Madrid
27 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match19 Aug 2028
Real Madrid make it 9 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Real Madrid have 9 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Hugo Corona arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Hugo Corona has, at Real Madrid, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: Real Madrid walk away from Adrià Pedrosa
$4.7M was the most the club would pay and Sevilla were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Yan Diomandé, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Real Madrid
Hugo Corona 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.
Match19 Aug 2028
Real Madrid keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Real Madrid
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market21 Aug 2028
Real Madrid promote Luken Castillo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luken Castillo 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.
In brief
- Market Real Madrid promote Víctor Vera from within
- Market Luis Gil steps up from the Real Madrid academy
- Market Real Madrid promote Nil Cano from within