16 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process
59 Edition

The Burgos Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Curro's — 8.40

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.40, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Gustavo Rigazzi asks to leave Burgos

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Ignasi Vilarrasa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Huesca come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Fabricio Da Rosa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Late improvement for Ander Cantero

At 32 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Tijn den Boggende

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Utrecht have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Burgos see off Albacete

Three points for Burgos, 2‑0 the final word against Albacete in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
58 Edition

The Burgos Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$290.0K settles it between the clubs for Hernán Gautier

Andorra have accepted the money. What Burgos do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Pol Tristán asks to leave Burgos

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom

Burgos close the window on a squad of their own making

21 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Žan Celar rejects the move

Burgos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Basel, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Unai Vencedor has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Tomás Fagioli is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Padova tell Burgos: Franco Ferrari is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

No place for Curro in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Curro has his answer from Burgos; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

57 Edition

The Burgos Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Unai Vencedor asks to leave Burgos

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

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Market

Zeleznicar Pancevo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Matías Sánchez

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Hernán Gautier

Burgos asked and Andorra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Víctor Mollejo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Víctor Mollejo commits to Burgos for another 4 years.

Squad

Mateo Mejía has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Match

David González sends Burgos past Almería

It finished 2‑1, and it was David González’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burgos.

In brief

56 Edition

The Burgos Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jon Karrikaburu sold, and an era ends

$25.7M from Valencia for Jon Karrikaburu. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Market

Burgos turn down Gijón for Álex Lizancos

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Gustavo Rigazzi has said yes to Huesca

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Burgos have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The terraces

Burgos sell a favourite for $25.7M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jon Karrikaburu was one of the reasons people came, and $25.7M does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings

Ignasi Vilarrasa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Ricardo Diez signs on for the long haul

Burgos moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Ricardo Diez, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad

Real improvement from Fabricio Acosta at Burgos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Fabricio Acosta is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Pol Tristán has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

55 Edition

The Burgos Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jon Karrikaburu has said yes to Valencia

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Burgos have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Víctor Villacañas 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 Burgos, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Jeremías Ruiz says Burgos went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

David González signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David González commits to Burgos for another 4 years.

Squad

David González 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Fabricio Da Rosa is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Late improvement for Víctor Mollejo

At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Andrea Favilli

Burgos asked and Avellino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Huesca join the queue for Gustavo Rigazzi

Add another name to the list: Huesca have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gustavo Rigazzi. The answer from Burgos has not changed — yet.

In brief

54 Edition

The Burgos Courier

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Pol Tristán asks to leave Burgos

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Unai Vencedor 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Francesco Salvemini

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Roma have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Late improvement for Kévin Appin

At 29 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignasi Vilarrasa 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Víctor Mollejo

“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.

Squad

Gustavo Rigazzi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustavo Rigazzi and Burgos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Still no ink between Burgos and Jacob Morales

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Burgos, another week without a signature from Jacob Morales.

The dugout

Kévin Appin 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.

In brief

53 Edition

The Burgos Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Unai Vencedor 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 Burgos, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Lincoln

Burgos asked and Vasco da Gama said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

Álex Lizancos gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

Squad

Jon Karrikaburu is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jon Karrikaburu has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Loan watch

Saúl Del Cerro counts the days

“I watch every Burgos game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Oviedo runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Market

Gustavo Rigazzi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Burgos has been clear about where Gustavo Rigazzi stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

52 Edition

The Burgos Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

David González: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Andrea Favilli turns down Burgos

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Avellino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Lee Young-Jun

Burgos asked and Grasshopper said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignasi Vilarrasa 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Sergio González

“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.

The dugout

Álex Lizancos knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Álex Lizancos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Víctor Mollejo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Víctor Mollejo is on it.

Market

The Jon Karrikaburu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Burgos know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

51 Edition

The Burgos Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Marcelo Expósito: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Áron Yaakobishvili

Burgos asked and Barcelona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Burgos count the cost of losing Braian Lluy

38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos try to borrow Édouard Charles

Chamois Niortais have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Víctor Villacañas gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

David González knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David González trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

The formation has left Lucas Sergi behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Burgos will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

50 Edition

The Burgos Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Villarreal come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Burgos did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Burgos bid $2.7M for Álvaro García

The offer went to Castellón this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Burgos get their man

The chase for Víctor San Bartolomé ended with $1.7M changing hands and Albacete out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Guido Gomez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bari have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignasi Vilarrasa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Brais Martínez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brais Martínez commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Burgos

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market

Víctor Villacañas is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Burgos has been clear about where Víctor Villacañas stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

49 Edition

The Burgos Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Álex Forés sold, and an era ends

$26.1M from Mallorca for Álex Forés. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

The dugout

Pablo Galdames keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Burgos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Burgos agree $1.7M for Víctor San Bartolomé

The clubs have shaken hands with Albacete; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

The terraces

Burgos sell a favourite for $26.1M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Álex Forés was one of the reasons people came, and $26.1M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Nahuel Roldán is a Burgos player

The fee is $1.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Deportivo La Coruña drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Luciano Pérez hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Burgos can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Grego Sierra stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Grego Sierra and Burgos agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

David González 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Burgos Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Álex Forés agrees terms with Mallorca

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Burgos people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Nahuel Roldán

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Burgos have done the hard part with Deportivo La Coruña, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

The dugout

Fabricio Acosta: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Pol Tristán 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.

Squad

Pol Tristán has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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.

Transfer targets

Valencia tell Burgos: Thalys is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sergio González

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio González, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Pablo Galdames knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pablo Galdames trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

47 Edition

The Burgos Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Burgos turn down Castellón for David González

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Mallorca watching Álex Forés

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Burgos have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Unai Vencedor has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Burgos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Ale Gomes at Burgos

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ale Gomes is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Braian Lluy out for 66 days

The medical room confirms 66 days on the sidelines for Braian Lluy, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Zakaria Labyad

Burgos asked and Corinthians said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignasi Vilarrasa 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 dugout

No hiding place for Kévin Appin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kévin Appin, and the manager let it.

In brief

46 Edition

The Burgos Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Burgos agree $880.0K for Nikolay Obolskiy

The clubs have shaken hands with Córdoba; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

The terraces

A $3.5M sale, and a town that did not want it

Fermín has gone, the accounts have $3.5M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Business is business: Fermín goes

Córdoba paid $3.5M and Burgos took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Ante Rebić

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Roma have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Pol Tristán gets it from the manager

“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.

Transfer targets

Burgos ask about Zakaria Labyad

A loan enquiry to Corinthians: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Álex Forés gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Álex Forés is on it.

In brief

45 Edition

The Burgos Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Álex Forés leads the rout of Córdoba

4‑1, and Álex Forés took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Burgos tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

The season ends: position 11 for Burgos

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 62 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Player ratings

A brace, and Álex Forés takes the afternoon — 8.45

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Álex Forés provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Dion Beljo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Jon Karrikaburu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 25 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina, 21, steals the show — 8.39

Marked 8.39 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Curro was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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.

Market

Unai Vencedor wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Burgos hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Álex Lizancos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Álex Lizancos and Burgos agree another 5 years.

In brief

44 Edition

The Burgos Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Álex Forés wins it after the whistle should have gone

95 minutes played. Álex Forés found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Andorra went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Squad

Álex Forés takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Álex Forés

17 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Álex Forés at his very best

Marked 9.77. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Burgos.

Match

Burgos get the job done against Andorra

A 3‑2 win over Andorra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

One of their own: Fabricio Acosta

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignasi Vilarrasa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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 The manager makes an example of José Gragera
  • Player ratings Luciano Pérez turns it into his own net
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
43 Edition

The Burgos Courier

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ander Cantero stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Enrique Cortés, 15, steals the show — 8.52

Marked 8.52 at 15, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Burgos against Racing Santander

2‑3 to Racing Santander, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

David González 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Enrique Cortés

At 15 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

200 appearances for Víctor Mollejo

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ignasi Vilarrasa

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignasi Vilarrasa, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Diez to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

42 Edition

The Burgos Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Burgos

Gijón will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Burgos were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ander Cantero

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jon Karrikaburu takes the afternoon — 8.65

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jon Karrikaburu provided it, and the 8.65 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jon Karrikaburu

24 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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 ratings

One of those days for Álex Forés

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Fermín

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Fermín was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.35. 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.

In brief

41 Edition

The Burgos Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jon Karrikaburu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.22 with 22 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

The run at home goes on for Burgos

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

David González 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.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Ante Rebić 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.

The dugout

Ante Rebić gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Santiago Martín Pereyra signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Santiago Martín Pereyra commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jon Karrikaburu

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

No place for Braian Lluy in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Braian Lluy has his answer from Burgos; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

40 Edition

The Burgos Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ander Cantero stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Jon Karrikaburu is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.20 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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.

Match

Las Palmas take the points off Burgos

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pablo Galdames

“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.

Player ratings

Curro was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

Match

Jon Karrikaburu answers Las Palmas immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Jon Karrikaburu had Burgos level again within 2 minutes, and Las Palmas never got to play with a lead at all.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Ricardo Diez left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

39 Edition

The Burgos Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Jon Karrikaburu's — 8.93

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.93, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ander Cantero

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

Jacob Morales keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Burgos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Burgos

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Lencina

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Jon Karrikaburu the difference as Burgos beat Málaga

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jon Karrikaburu. 2‑1 against Málaga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to César Galíndez

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

38 Edition

The Burgos Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Unai Vencedor pops up at the right end — 7.77

7.77, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ante Rebić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Burgos make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Burgos get the job done against Mirandés

A 2‑1 win over Mirandés, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Fermín

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

David González stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.97 on the card, and the Burgos support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Curro's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings

Curro gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Burgos lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Player ratings Jon Karrikaburu beats them one at a time
  • The dugout Oier Luengo has become a man the manager trusts
37 Edition

The Burgos Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

David González 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.

Match

Ceuta take the points off Burgos

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Ander Cantero gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Ander Cantero

10 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Ander Cantero has given nobody the chance.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Still no ink between Burgos and Guillermo Pfund

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Burgos, another week without a signature from Guillermo Pfund.

The dugout

When it matters, Álex Forés plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

36 Edition

The Burgos Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Álex Forés scores twice — 9.73

Two goals and a mark of 9.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jon Karrikaburu takes the afternoon — 9.07

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jon Karrikaburu provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Ander Cantero stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Unai Vencedor has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Burgos can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Guillermo Pfund for 17 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Burgos will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Nobody wins at Burgos

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Burgos share the spoils with Leganés

A 4‑4 draw with Leganés leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

35 Edition

The Burgos Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

David González and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Curro 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 dugout

No hiding place for Ante Rebić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ante Rebić, and the manager let it.

Squad

Tomás Leuzzi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Leuzzi commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Match

Burgos refuse to lose to Castellón

A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Player ratings

Jon Karrikaburu was the difference for Burgos

Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Honours even between Burgos and Castellón

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Pablo Galdames knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pablo Galdames trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ricardo Diez was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Burgos dressing room was either.

In brief

34 Edition

The Burgos Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Ante Rebić: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Ante Rebić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Curro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Burgos see off Deportivo La Coruña

Three points for Burgos, 2‑1 the final word against Deportivo La Coruña in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

Víctor Mollejo gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings

Curro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

5 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

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.” Ricardo Diez, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

José Gragera 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.

In brief

33 Edition

The Burgos Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Jon Karrikaburu scores twice — 8.70

Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Ander Cantero keeps Burgos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Jon Karrikaburu among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Jon Karrikaburu on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Burgos and Granada.

Match

A bad afternoon for Burgos against Granada

2‑4 to Granada, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Ander Cantero gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑4 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Diez to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Burgos and Guillermo Pfund are talking past each other

“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.

In brief

32 Edition

The Burgos Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from Burgos

Real Sociedad B will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Burgos were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Víctor Villacañas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Víctor Villacañas commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ante Rebić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

Burgos supporters have found a favourite in Álex Lizancos

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Álex Lizancos 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Jon Karrikaburu at his very best

Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Burgos.

Player ratings

One of those days for Álex Forés

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Curro

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Álex Lizancos

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

  • Squad Getting past Ander Cantero has become the hardest job in the division
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Sergio González
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
31 Edition

The Burgos Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ander Cantero

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oier Luengo 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.

Squad

200 appearances for Oier Luengo

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Guillermo Pfund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillermo Pfund, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Ricardo Diez on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

When it matters, Víctor Mollejo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Braian Lluy

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

30 Edition

The Burgos Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Jon Karrikaburu takes the afternoon — 8.93

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jon Karrikaburu provided it, and the 8.93 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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.

Match

Jon Karrikaburu the difference as Burgos beat Eibar

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jon Karrikaburu. 2‑1 against Eibar, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of José Gragera

“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.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

6 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ricardo Diez on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

David González knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Burgos, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

29 Edition

The Burgos Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Burgos

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Cultural Leonesa kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Burgos will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings

Curro was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 30. 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Ander Cantero gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Oier Luengo 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.

Match

Burgos and Cultural Leonesa take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Kévin Appin

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Burgos will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

The dugout

David González knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David González trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

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.” Ricardo Diez chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

28 Edition

The Burgos Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Ante Rebić breaks a bone — 20 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Burgos

1‑4 against Albacete, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Pablo Galdames

“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.

Market

Gonzalo Guerrero steps up from the Burgos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gonzalo Guerrero 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.

Market

One of our own: Tomás Diez joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tomás Diez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Inquest at Burgos

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

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The Burgos Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ante Rebić breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Burgos tear Huesca apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Huesca, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Álex Forés's — 9.41

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.41, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Both of them Jon Karrikaburu's — 9.18

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 6 signed and 0 gone

That is the business done at Burgos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Unai Vencedor raises the bar for Burgos

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Burgos heard it as anything else.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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.

Squad

Unai Vencedor makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

In brief

26 Edition

The Burgos Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ante Rebić out for 38 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Burgos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Aitor Buñuel keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Burgos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Ezequiel Ávila

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Betis have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Oier Luengo 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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Álex Forés at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Burgos.

Match

Burgos rescue it on 91 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Almería had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

No hiding place for José Gragera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to José Gragera, and the manager let it.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Burgos

Something was said to Unai Vencedor and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

  • The dugout Curro is still being punished for one mistake
  • Squad 7 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other
  • Match Honours even between Burgos and Almería
25 Edition

The Burgos Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ante Rebić out for 48 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Burgos will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Transfer targets

Mallorca tell Burgos: Lucho Vega is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Fabricio Acosta gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Fabricio Acosta has just signed for Burgos, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Pfund

“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.

Match

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Burgos had all but put away. Cádiz will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Álex Forés

A mark of 7.65, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings

An own goal to forget for César Galíndez

The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.

In brief

24 Edition

The Burgos Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Door shut on Miguel Baeza

Burgos asked and Espanyol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Arkaitz Mariezkurrena rejects the move

Burgos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Real Sociedad, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

At last: Burgos win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Córdoba. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

Burgos see off Córdoba

Three points for Burgos, 2‑0 the final word against Córdoba in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Martín Ramos steps up from the Burgos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martín Ramos 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.

Market

Burgos promote Felipe Fernández from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Fernández 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.

Player ratings

Álex Forés in the eights

A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Oier Luengo 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Burgos Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Burgos's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Santiago Martín Pereyra 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. Santiago Martín Pereyra has, at Burgos, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Transfer targets

Leganés tell Burgos: Seydouba Cissé is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

David González gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oier Luengo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Curro runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Burgos keep their word to David González

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Transfer targets

Burgos try to borrow Arkaitz Mariezkurrena

Real Sociedad have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

22 Edition

The Burgos Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

10 saves: Ander Cantero was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

Burgos out of the cup

Real Madrid ended it 0‑11. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces

Burgos are taken apart by Real Madrid — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-11. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 34 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Match

No end in sight to Burgos's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Burgos has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Ale Gomes is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Burgos and Real Madrid in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

David González 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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Burgos Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Mario Cantero keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Burgos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Burgos — 7.81

1 for Unai Vencedor, marked 7.81, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match

The wait goes on for Burgos

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oier Luengo 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.

Squad

Luciano Pérez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luciano Pérez and Burgos agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

5 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Jon Karrikaburu

Chances created: 11. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

In brief

20 Edition

The Burgos Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Pol Tristán 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.

Squad

Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

The dugout

Víctor Villacañas gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Pablo Galdames 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.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ezequiel Navarro Montoya

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Match

No goals between Burgos and Zaragoza

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Zaragoza will be the happier side with the point.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Ander Cantero

5 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Ander Cantero has given nobody the chance.

In brief

19 Edition

The Burgos Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

David González 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pol Tristán

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pol Tristán, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Burgos against Las Palmas

0‑1 to Las Palmas, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Lautaro Ayala slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Lautaro Ayala is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Víctor Villacañas 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.

The dugout

Oier Luengo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Oier Luengo is on it.

Looking ahead

Víctor Mollejo goes back to face Zaragoza

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Víctor Mollejo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Burgos needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

18 Edition

The Burgos Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ander Cantero keeps Burgos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Unai Vencedor 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.

Match

Burgos come up short against Málaga

Málaga left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oier Luengo 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 dugout

Ricardo Diez: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Boardroom

Wages eat 93% of everything Burgos earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

Braian Lluy gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Ezequiel Navarro Montoya 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Álex Forés plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

17 Edition

The Burgos Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Ander Cantero keeps Burgos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Burgos see off Mirandés

Three points for Burgos, 1‑0 the final word against Mirandés in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignasi Vilarrasa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of José Gragera

“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.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ricardo Diez on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Ander Cantero gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ander Cantero is on it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Víctor Villacañas

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

16 Edition

The Burgos Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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 terraces

One of their own: Álex Lizancos

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.

Squad

Lautaro Ayala signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lautaro Ayala and Burgos agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Curro

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Víctor Villacañas gets it from the manager

“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.

Match

Ceuta snatch it back from Burgos

A goal on 96 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings

Álex Lizancos stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Burgos support went home talking about one name.

Match

Fermín rescues a point for Burgos

It needed Fermín to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ceuta, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

  • Squad No place for Lautaro Ayala in the new shape
  • The dugout David González knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
15 Edition

The Burgos Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Burgos march on in the cup

Barcelona are out and Burgos go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Cruel end for Barcelona as Burgos pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Burgos scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ander Cantero

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Burgos — 7.48

1 for Unai Vencedor, marked 7.48, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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 ratings

Álex Forés has a hand in both — 7.88

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.88, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Match

Burgos come up short against Leganés

Leganés left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The terraces

Burgos supporters have found a favourite in Santiago Lencina

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Santiago Lencina 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Santiago Lencina

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

14 Edition

The Burgos Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ander Cantero stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad

Pol Tristán 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pablo Galdames

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pablo Galdames, and the manager let it.

Match

Burgos get the job done against Castellón

A 2‑0 win over Castellón, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 93% of everything Burgos earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

Curro was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. 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.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ricardo Diez on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad

Jeremías Ruiz is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Jeremías Ruiz has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

13 Edition

The Burgos Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Ale Gomes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Burgos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Pol Tristán 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David González was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ezequiel Navarro Montoya

“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.

Squad

Burgos are still strangers to each other

14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market

Braian Lluy is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Burgos has been clear about where Braian Lluy stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

When it matters, Ander Cantero plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Match

Burgos share the spoils with Deportivo La Coruña

A 1‑1 draw with Deportivo La Coruña leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

No place for Jeremías Ruiz in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Burgos are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

12 Edition

The Burgos Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

6 saves: Ander Cantero was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Unai Vencedor pops up at the right end — 7.87

7.87, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ale Gomes is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Gragera 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.

Match

Burgos and Granada take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

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.” Ricardo Diez chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The form table has caught Ezequiel Navarro Montoya

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Market

Burgos bring in an old head

Jeremías Ruiz is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

11 Edition

The Burgos Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Unai Vencedor 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pol Tristán

“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.

Market

One of our own: Carlos Montero joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Carlos Montero is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Jan Aguilar joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jan Aguilar is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A row about effort at Burgos

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignasi Vilarrasa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Saúl Del Cerro did the work nobody counts — 7.12

10 combined actions and 7.12. 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.

Match

Burgos caught on 86 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Real Sociedad B scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Burgos share the spoils with Real Sociedad B

A 1‑1 draw with Real Sociedad B leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

10 Edition

The Burgos Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Squad

Ander Cantero keeps Burgos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

Late improvement for Pol Tristán

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David González 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.

Match

Álex Forés the difference as Burgos beat Valladolid

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Álex Forés. 1‑0 against Valladolid, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

One of those days for Álex Forés

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom

Wages eat 119% of everything Burgos earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout

No hiding place for Guillermo Pfund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guillermo Pfund, and the manager let it.

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9 Edition

The Burgos Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Burgos taken apart

0‑3 to Eibar, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Unai Vencedor gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Gragera 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Burgos

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad

Burgos are still strangers to each other

13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Álex Forés will replay that one

1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.

The dugout

Álex Forés 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Burgos Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ander Cantero decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for Burgos

A 1‑1 win over Málaga, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Burgos — 7.82

1 for Unai Vencedor, marked 7.82, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Curro 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Ale Gomes

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

6 unbeaten for Burgos

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Burgos did not have in the autumn.

Match

Víctor Mollejo sends Burgos past Cultural Leonesa

It finished 3‑1, and it was Víctor Mollejo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burgos.

Player ratings

One of those days for Álex Forés

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

7 Edition

The Burgos Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Theo stays at Córdoba as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Burgos will try again when the window opens; Córdoba may not be selling by then.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Pol Tristán and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

David González 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.

Market

One of our own: Iván Gallardo joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Iván Gallardo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Jaime Fernández steps up from the Burgos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jaime Fernández 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.

Player ratings

Ignasi Vilarrasa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. 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.

Match

Burgos refuse to lose to Albacete

A point taken on 87 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Grego Sierra

“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.

Match

Enrique Cortés rescues a point for Burgos

It needed Enrique Cortés to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Albacete, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

6 Edition

The Burgos Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$6.2M settles it between the clubs for Theo

Córdoba have accepted the money. What Burgos do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Player ratings

Ignasi Vilarrasa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 22 in, 1 out at Burgos

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Pol Tristán 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

David González 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Kerim Alajbegović

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventus have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Guillermo Pfund

“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.

Squad

Álex Forés slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Álex Forés is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Player ratings

Álex Lizancos stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Burgos support went home talking about one name.

In brief

5 Edition

The Burgos Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Santiago Lencina, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02

A mark of 8.02 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Cortulua tell Burgos: Príncipe is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Burgos find a way past Almería

Almería made Burgos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Santiago Lencina

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Burgos

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Burgos pick somebody else ahead of Pol Tristán

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.

The dugout

Ricardo Diez has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Ricardo Diez on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

4 Edition

The Burgos Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

6 saves: Ander Cantero was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Burgos turn down Huesca for Mario Cantero

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Burgos lose Jon Karrikaburu

36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Unai Vencedor 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 Burgos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

David González 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Danny Ward

Burgos asked and Everton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Burgos rescue it on 85 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 85. Cádiz had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

Ignasi Vilarrasa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Burgos share the spoils with Cádiz

A 1‑1 draw with Cádiz leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

3 Edition

The Burgos Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Burgos say no — this time

The offer from Gijón for David González 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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Rubén López rejects the move

Burgos had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Deportivo La Coruña, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Burgos

Curro 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Illan Meslier

Burgos asked and Arsenal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Burgos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Gragera 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.

Squad

The formation has left Guillermo Pfund behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Burgos will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Transfer targets

Burgos ask about Danny Ward

A loan enquiry to Everton: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Príncipe is in the works

Burgos have made the call to Cortulua. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Burgos

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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Burgos Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

David González signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David González commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Burgos

Curro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Huesca join the queue for Mario Cantero

Add another name to the list: Huesca have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mario Cantero. The answer from Burgos has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Davinchi

Burgos asked and Getafe said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of David González

“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.

Market

One of our own: Cristian Duran joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Duran is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Enrique Cortés joins the Burgos first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Enrique Cortés is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Burgos promote Pol Torres from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pol Torres 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.

Squad

Ignasi Vilarrasa 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Burgos Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Curro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Curro commits to Burgos for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burgos

Curro 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.

Squad

David González 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.

Transfer targets

Burgos rebuffed over Rubén López

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportivo La Coruña have kept their man, and Burgos go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Leganés join the queue for Brais Martínez

Add another name to the list: Leganés have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Brais Martínez. The answer from Burgos has not changed — yet.

Market

The clock runs on Curro's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Illan Meslier is in the works

Burgos have made the call to Arsenal. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Toni Fuidias is in the works

Burgos have made the call to Girona. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

5 new faces, and Burgos are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief