Marked for Adriano Cordero
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
149 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cesar Vallejo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market27 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cesar Vallejo can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
An offer of $100.0K for Jesús Rossi
Cesar Vallejo have gone to Alianza Atletico 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.
Market27 Dec 2027
Add another name to the list: Universitario have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alejo Antilef. The answer from Cesar Vallejo has not changed — yet.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joel Quispe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Alejo Antilef 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.
Transfer targets27 Dec 2027
A loan move for Massimo Sandi is in the works
Cesar Vallejo have made the call to Sport Huancayo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
“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.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Italo Regalado is on it.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
The knee: Angel Romero out for 84 days
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cesar Vallejo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Beltrán commits to Cesar Vallejo for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Fernando Da Rosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joel Quispe was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
Nobody at Cesar Vallejo 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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“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 Cesar Vallejo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Alejo Antilef was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Cesar Vallejo asked and Platense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jhonny Vidales, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Atlético Mineiro 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Estudiantes 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 dugout25 Jan 2027
Erwin Paiva gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Erwin Paiva is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Axel Cabellos asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Fernando Da Rosa plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Cesar Vallejo have done the hard part with Universidad Catolica, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Belgrano have kept their man, and Cesar Vallejo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Joel Quispe falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Cesar Vallejo 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.