Simón Romero

Goalkeeper - Union Magdalena
19 Nov 2028
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Marked for Simón Romero

101 Edition

The Union Magdalena Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Jul 2028

The knee: Kevin Núñez out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Union Magdalena lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Union Magdalena put Edwin Castillo on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Pressure builds in the Union Magdalena boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match1 Jul 2028

The wait goes on for Union Magdalena

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market3 Jul 2028

Gabriel Arrieta asks to leave Union Magdalena

“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.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

$62.0K settles it between the clubs for Gali Balanta

Deportes Tolima have accepted the money. What Union Magdalena do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market3 Jul 2028

Union Magdalena turn down Persija for Gabriel Arrieta

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Milton Delgado will not be coming to Union Magdalena

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Boca Juniors is saying, and nobody at Union Magdalena is enjoying the guessing.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Words exchanged at Union Magdalena

José Mercado 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.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Union Magdalena Herald

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jun 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kevin Núñez

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Union Magdalena lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces26 Jun 2028

Anger at Union Magdalena spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match26 Jun 2028

Union Magdalena sink to position 19

21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market26 Jun 2028

José Mercado 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 Union Magdalena can pretend not to have heard.

Match24 Jun 2028

7 matches without a win for Union Magdalena

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Union Magdalena are no longer polite ones.

Market26 Jun 2028

Union Magdalena turn down Tijuana for Luther Rueda

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Union Magdalena

José Mercado was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets26 Jun 2028

An offer of $32.0K for Simón Romero

Union Magdalena have gone to Independiente Medellin with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad26 Jun 2028

A move Yesid García 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. Yesid García is living that version at Union Magdalena, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

99 Edition

The Union Magdalena Herald

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jun 2028

Kevin Núñez damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 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.

Market19 Jun 2028

Terms done: Edson González is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Envigado waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Union Magdalena is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match17 Jun 2028

6 matches without a win for Union Magdalena

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Union Magdalena are no longer polite ones.

Market19 Jun 2028

José Cabrera puts it in writing

“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 Union Magdalena, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market19 Jun 2028

Union Magdalena turn down Real Santander for Jairo Pimienta

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets19 Jun 2028

No deal for Simón Romero at that price

Union Magdalena offered $32.0K; Independiente Medellin said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets19 Jun 2028

Argentinos Juniors tell Union Magdalena: Manuel Brondo is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout19 Jun 2028

Jhoan Pinto frozen out at Union Magdalena

This is not rotation. Jhoan Pinto has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Union Magdalena is pretending otherwise.

Market19 Jun 2028

Tijuana watching Luther Rueda

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Union Magdalena have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

98 Edition

The Independiente Medellin Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Jun 2028

Independiente Medellin break the bank for Jorge Perez

$2.1M. No player has ever cost Independiente Medellin more, and expectation arrives with him.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Salvador Ichazo keeps Independiente Medellin in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market12 Jun 2028

Independiente Medellin turn down Deportes Tolima for Luis Sandoval

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom12 Jun 2028

Independiente Medellin go back to the board over Williams Barlasina

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $550.0K — a club that wants Williams Barlasina enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Independiente Medellin make their move for Williams Barlasina

$510.0K on the table at Millonarios. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom12 Jun 2028

Simón Romero signs for Aguilas Doradas while still at Independiente Medellin

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Simón Romero has agreed terms with Aguilas Doradas for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Jorge Perez 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 Independiente Medellin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

An offer of $53.0K for Yorleys Mena

Independiente Medellin have gone to Millonarios with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Door shut on Williams Barlasina

Independiente Medellin asked and Millonarios said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief