Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
14 combined actions and 7.87. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.74, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Fernando Hernández 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.
Racing Ferrol offered $510.0K; Espanyol said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Racing Ferrol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Giménez 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.
Ander Gorostidi 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.
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Luka Muñoz after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Successful dribbles: 41. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Fabio scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
$510.0K on the table at Espanyol. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Real Avilés scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Etienne Eto'o and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Racing Ferrol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ander Gorostidi 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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Flavio Santos. 2‑0 against Arenas Club, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Arenas Club tried to reorganise, Racing Ferrol did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
122% of the income goes out in wages at Racing Ferrol
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Luka Muñoz could afford to be generous.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Racing Ferrol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Iñaki Rupérez 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.
7.53, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Racing Ferrol had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Luka Muñoz was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Racing Ferrol dressing room was either.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
A 2‑1 win over Celta Fortuna, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing Ferrol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Luka Muñoz, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Racing Ferrol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgar Pujol 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.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lugo in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Racing Ferrol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Luka Muñoz chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Celta Fortuna in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miquel Parera and Racing Ferrol agree another 2 years.
Add another name to the list: Sanluqueño have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about César Fernández. The answer from Racing Ferrol has not changed — yet.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ander Gorostidi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A loan enquiry to Gimnasia La Plata: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Still no offer on the table, and Edgar Pujol’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.