Facundo Barreto

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Colon
23 Jan 2027
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The Colon Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Martín González damages knee ligaments — 127 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 127 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.

Boardroom

Colon told to sell

The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.

Market

Nikola Perić is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Colon

Leandro Méndez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

183% of the income goes out in wages at Colon

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Ignacio Milans pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

In brief