44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Atletico Nacional lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atletico Nacional can pretend not to have heard.
The offer went to Independiente Medellin this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
$700.0K on the table at Fortaleza CEIF. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $750.0K — a club that wants Richardson Rivas enough to be asked twice.
Atletico Nacional have gone to Deportivo Pereira 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.
Add another name to the list: Trujillanos have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ronaldo Lucena. The answer from Atletico Nacional has not changed — yet.
In brief
SquadGustavo Torres falls out with a teammate over standards
The words a physio says slowly. 96 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Torres 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.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Atletico Nacional told Mateus Uribe something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atletico Nacional this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
César Haydar damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.07 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cristian Uribe has agreed terms with Union Magdalena for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kevin De La Hoz is living that version at Atletico Nacional, and it tends to show in the first month.
Elkin Rivero 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin De La Hoz and Atletico Nacional agree another 3 years.
The match ball belongs to Cristian Arango, whose 6 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad5 Oct 2026
César Haydar damages knee ligaments — 121 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 121 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.
Out, 3‑3 to Atletico Bucaramanga, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Atletico Bucaramanga kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Atletico Nacional will be asked about the last half hour all week.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Atletico Nacional and Alianza Petrolera, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Elías Cabrera has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Juan José Rosa has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Manuel Guerrero 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.
He is 17 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Elkin Rivero 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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ivan Giraldo after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.