The Deportes Tolima Courier
Market10 Dec 2029
Felipe Cifuentes agrees terms with Atletico Nacional
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Deportes Tolima people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Dec 2029
Nelson Vaca 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 Deportes Tolima can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Deportes Tolima
Kelvin Flórez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Dec 2029
A row about effort at Deportes Tolima
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrián Parra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Door shut on Tomás Molina
Deportes Tolima asked and Estudiantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Deportes Tolima ask about Nicolás Servetto
A loan enquiry to Universitario: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets10 Dec 2029
Deportes Tolima try to borrow David Fernández
O'Higgins have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout10 Dec 2029
When it matters, Luis Sánchez 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.
Market10 Dec 2029
Still no ink between Deportes Tolima and Francisco Galván
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Deportes Tolima, another week without a signature from Francisco Galván.
In brief
- Market Sebastián Valbuena told to find a new club
- The dugout Francisco Galván knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Cristian Rivas has been promised minutes