The Melgar Herald
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Too dear: Melgar walk away from Kevin Becerra
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Cienciano were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Alex Valera 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 Melgar can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alex Valera 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 Melgar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Melgar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alejandro Ramos 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No place for Thiago Perugini in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Melgar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
When it matters, Matías Lazo 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
- Squad An aura around Alex Valera
- Market Melgar shop where it costs nothing
- Market The window shut and Deval Muñóz is still in the building
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jhamir D'Arrigo