The Cortulua Post
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sam Howard
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cortulua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
121 days out for Ivan Romero after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Cortulua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market30 Nov 2026
Cortulua may not be able to give Hugo Montero what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Hugo Montero wants continental football; whether Cortulua can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Diego Arias 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 Cortulua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Cortulua
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Valencia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Dayron Mosquera
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dayron Mosquera, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Hugo Montero 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 Cortulua, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Juan Valencia talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cortulua know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Francisco Quintero 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 Francisco Quintero is on it.
In brief
- Market Joaquín Gómez joins Cortulua on a free
- The dugout Johan Vargas has been promised minutes
- Market Another notebook out for Oscar Borja