The Colon Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2027
Lucas Espinosa damages knee ligaments — 63 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 63 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Colon
Leandro Méndez 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Colon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahuel Marzochi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Diego Núñez
“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
Colon are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Lucas Espinosa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Colon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Kevin Rodríguez’s exile
- The dugout Bryan Paz asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Leandro Méndez keeps his manager's vote
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Colon