The Bogota Courier
Market4 Jan 2027
Brayan Castro 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 The request is on a desk at Bogota, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Malcom Palacios at Bogota
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Malcom Palacios is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Bogota
Mauricio Medina and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Cristián Mosquera 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Kevin Parra stays at Deportes Quindio as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Bogota will try again when the window opens; Deportes Quindio may not be selling by then.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mateo Valenzuela signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mateo Valenzuela and Bogota agree another 4 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
David Reyes is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and David Reyes has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
When it matters, Alejandro Aguilar 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Bogota and Brayan Nazarith are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout Brayan Nazarith knocks on the manager's door
- Market Sergio Díaz leaves for nothing
- Market Jhon Castillo leaves for nothing