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Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
114% of the income goes out in wages at Colon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Market25 Oct 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Anthony Vilche 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tomás Lerman 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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Eibar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Colon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Market4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
51 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matías Santos commits to Colon for another 2 years.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Colon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Anthony Vilche 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.
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Uneasy
Market6 Sep 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
124% of the income goes out in wages at Colon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Eibar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Colon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 0 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Anthony Vilche 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 Colon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Martín González is 37, with 1 appearances behind him, and Colon will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
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Steady
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
The numbers do not look good at Colon
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Tomás Lerman
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Bruno Airaldi 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 Colon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market2 Aug 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Atenas made Colon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Kevin Rivero
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Colon have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad2 Aug 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Colon pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Market2 Aug 2027
The clock runs on Anthony Vilche's contract
12 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Colon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Joe Arreche may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market2 Aug 2027
The window shut and Martín González is still in the building
Colon spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Tomás Lerman, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 608% of everything Colon 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tomás Lerman 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.