From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sporting Cristal people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universitario they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alianza Lima can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Deportivo Municipal waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Universitario is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Jan 2027
The offer from Juan Aurich for Federico Girotti 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Universitario, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Dec 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jairo Concha wants continental football; whether Universitario can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market1 Dec 2026
Andy Polo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Universitario has been clear about where Andy Polo stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 2026
“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.
Market1 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportivo Municipal is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Nov 2026
Luis Abram wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Oct 2026
Felipe Vizeu 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 Sporting Cristal can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Oct 2026
The offer from Lechia for Diego Romero 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.
Market1 Oct 2026
So close: Luis Abram’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Rapid Wien moved on, Luis Abram reports back to Sporting Cristal, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alianza Atletico can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer from Obolon for Federico Girotti 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.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bukhara had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Aug 2026
Andy Polo 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 Universitario can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market1 Aug 2026
5 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market1 Aug 2026
Royer Salcedo is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ayacucho has been clear about where Royer Salcedo stands, which is more than many ever get.