The Real Murcia Courier
Squad17 May 2027
Ekain breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 May 2027
The season ends: position 14 for Real Murcia
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 42 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Tiziano Perrotta, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90
A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 May 2027
Joel Roca 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 Murcia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Óscar Gil
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Real Murcia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Flakus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match15 May 2027
Tiziano Perrotta rescues a point for Real Murcia
It needed Tiziano Perrotta to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Eldense, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout17 May 2027
Ángel González is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Antonio David was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
In brief
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Raúl Gallardo on the draw
- Market Antxón Jaso told to find a new club
- The dugout Mariano Bareiro left out for tactical reasons at Real Murcia