The Barranquilla Gazette
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Marlon Carabali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marlon Carabali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barranquilla the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Barranquilla
José Luis Caicedo 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 181% of everything Barranquilla 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Cristian Peñate 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jhon Navia 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
José Luis Caicedo 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.
In brief
- Squad Daniel Castillo is not doing himself any favours
- Squad Jhon Navia has settled at Barranquilla
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Marlon Carabali