The Fortaleza CEIF Herald
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Fernando Vargas has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Fortaleza CEIF can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 Jan 2029
Andrés Arroyo 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 The request is on a desk at Fortaleza CEIF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Crisis meeting at Fortaleza CEIF
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market8 Jan 2029
The Union Magdalena deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Andrés Arroyo reports back to Fortaleza CEIF with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market8 Jan 2029
Taigy Dugard has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fortaleza CEIF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Fortaleza CEIF to lose Taigy Dugard for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Taigy Dugard 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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Andrés Arroyo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fortaleza CEIF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Valentín Reyes gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Valentín Reyes has just signed for Fortaleza CEIF, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
Door shut on Matías Córdoba
Fortaleza CEIF asked and Colón said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Fortaleza CEIF
- The dugout Jhonier Blanco gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Williams Barlasina loses the manager who believed in him