Marked for Pablo Ramón
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Sergio Canales, 35, rolls back the years — 7.82
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Pablo Ramón 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juan Carlos Arana. 3‑1 against Córdoba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Racing Santander.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Maguette Guèye falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Sergio Canales, 35, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Suleiman Camara 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Neco Celorio dropped after a run of poor form
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.
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Upbeat
Match16 Nov 2026
26 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Pablo Ramón 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Albacete left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Zak Jules falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Racing Santander know it.
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Upbeat
Match4 Nov 2026
Sevilla ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match7 Nov 2026
2 behind and going nowhere, until Andrés Martín decided otherwise. Gijón had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Giorgi Guliashvili takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giorgi Guliashvili provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Andrés Martín, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Sergio Canales yet — 8.34
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.34 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrés Martín. 5‑3 against Gijón, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Manex Lozano has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Giorgi Guliashvili was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Sangalli, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Suleiman Camara 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Racing Santander told Pierluigi Gollini something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Pablo Ramón 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Marco Sangalli falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Óscar Whalley, and the manager let it.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Feirense to sit and watch. I want to come back to Racing Santander and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market5 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Racing Santander have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juan Carlos Arana. 2‑0 against Leganés, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maguette Guèye 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Racing Santander had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
Feirense come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing Santander did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Pablo Ramón 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
José Capon gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. José Capon has just signed for Racing Santander, and for once the answer mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Jorge Salinas has come up in conversations Racing Santander were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Valladolid spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marco Sangalli falls out with a teammate over standards
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.88 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Racing Santander had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for Ángel Fortuño ended with $2.0M changing hands and Espanyol out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Racing Santander
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Núñez 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pol Garrido 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Juan Giménez 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maguette Guèye 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
No investment in the facilities at Racing Santander
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The new deal changes things for Ángel Fortuño
Wages are the one subject a dressing room never discusses and always knows. Ángel Fortuño has signed terms at Racing Santander that will be quietly noted by everybody who trains beside him.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Atlético Madrid for Sergio Canales was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrés Martín and Racing Santander agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Ramón 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 Racing Santander this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Racing Santander training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Álvaro Mantilla 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrés Martín asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.