The Real Santander Post
Squad21 Jan 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wilmer Bustamante
120 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.
Market21 Jan 2036
Tristán Lara 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 The request is on a desk at Real Santander, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Jan 2036
Juan Ferrari is a Real Santander player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Tristán Lara 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.
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
Graduation day at Real Santander
7 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.
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
Julian Murillo will join Real Santander for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Julian Murillo has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Real Santander have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad21 Jan 2036
A row about effort at Real Santander
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Cardona was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market21 Jan 2036
Edwin Martinez steps up from the Real Santander academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edwin Martinez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market21 Jan 2036
One of our own: Gustavo Cuadrado joins the Real Santander first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gustavo Cuadrado is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Seidu Basit
- Boardroom Real Santander let a promise lapse
- Squad Real Santander are still strangers to each other