The Barranquilla Gazette
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
Barranquilla 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Jordan Barrera is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Barranquilla know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words at Barranquilla training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Peñate 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Miguel Agámez 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 Barranquilla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch8 Nov 2027
César Bravo has seen enough of Envigado
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Barranquilla, and 0 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Darwin Avendaño
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Ebaldo Pérez knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Alberto Higgins is not doing himself any favours