Marked for Marcus Vinicius
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Mosquera
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportivo Pereira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Deportivo Pereira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Iván Morales 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alejandro Piedrahita was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Deportivo Pereira asked and Boca Juniors 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Sergio Román 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Miguel Caicedo and Deportivo Pereira agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Nicolás Figal is in the works
Deportivo Pereira have made the call to Boca Juniors. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Santiago Mosquera damages knee ligaments — 52 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 52 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market21 Dec 2026
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.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
Deportivo Pereira asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market21 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Deportivo Pereira have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Andrés Macea 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 Deportivo Pereira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Dec 2026
Deportivo Pereira have let the market know Walmer Pacheco can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Javier Mena 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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 Santiago Aguilar is on it.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Eber Moreno 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 Deportivo Pereira can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Deportivo Pereira training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javier Mena 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Javier Mena
“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 dugout9 Nov 2026
Felipe Mosquera has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Pereira will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Eber Moreno 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 Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market9 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marcus Vinicius’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market9 Nov 2026
The clock does Eber Moreno’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Deportivo Pereira could ask drops and the wages Eber Moreno can ask rise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I want to play”: Javier Mena speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 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 Deportivo Pereira, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Rentería, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Manny Gonzalez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
17 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Javier Mena was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Danilo Ortiz has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Pereira will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market26 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Deportivo Pereira know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑3 to Millonarios, 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yuber Quiñónes and Deportivo Pereira agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrés Macea 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Felipe Mosquera has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Pereira will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Loaiza, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Sergio Román
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Edinson Largacha has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportivo Pereira will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Deportivo Pereira will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Javier Mena was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Alejandro Piedrahita has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Manuel Loaiza watches a signing take the shirt he was promised
At 31 the pathway was supposed to be open. Instead Deportivo Pereira went to the market, and a local readership is asking the question the academy staff are too diplomatic to ask out loud.
Match3 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Deportes Tolima defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Junior ended it 0‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Deportivo Pereira — 7.98
1 for Ederson Moreno, marked 7.98, 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Santiago Álzate has agreed terms with Jaguares for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Alex Payares would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alex Payares is living that version at Deportivo Pereira, and it tends to show in the first month.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Fabio Delgado
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Pereira can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Jaguares, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Manny Gonzalez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Sebastián Hurtado has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Deportivo Pereira have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Diego Moreno 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jose Vargas 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Lopez 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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Deportivo Pereira can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Walmer Pacheco and Deportivo Pereira agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Jorge Bermúdez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match1 Aug 2026
Level with 87 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Deportivo Pereira had all but put away. Atletico Nacional will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Danilo Ortiz 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Deportivo Pereira 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.