Marked for Jesús Jiménez
From our football correspondent
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Squad13 Aug 2029
73 days out for Carlos Mosquera after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Deportes Quindio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market13 Aug 2029
“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 Quindio can pretend not to have heard.
Market13 Aug 2029
Arema come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Deportes Quindio did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad13 Aug 2029
José Lloreda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Roa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of José Lloreda
“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.
Market13 Aug 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportes Quindio, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout13 Aug 2029
The manager makes Carlos Dávila a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportes Quindio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Squad23 Jul 2029
Fernando Torres damages knee ligaments — 17 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Jul 2029
“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 Deportes Quindio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
The clubs have shaken hands with Union Magdalena; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Santiago Roa 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
The clock did what Jaguares would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market23 Jul 2029
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Deportes Quindio have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Squad2 Jul 2029
Fernando Torres damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Minaglia and Deportes Quindio agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Jul 2029
José Lloreda 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.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
José Lloreda gets it from the manager
“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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Deportes Quindio told Cristian Peñate something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
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.
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Market25 Jun 2029
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Deportes Quindio people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market25 Jun 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
The clubs have shaken hands with America de Cali; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Deportes Quindio have done the hard part with Santa Fe, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market25 Jun 2029
The offer from Dinamo Batumi for Jesús Jiménez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad25 Jun 2029
José Lloreda 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Roa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
“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.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Jesús Cuero has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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.
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Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Fee done, terms next for Mateo García
Deportes Quindio and Santa Fe have settled on $790.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Muñóz and Deportes Quindio agree another 3 years.
Squad11 Jun 2029
José Lloreda 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Santiago Roa 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.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2029
Deportes Quindio asked and Atletico Nacional 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 dugout11 Jun 2029
Santiago Roa has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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 dugout11 Jun 2029
“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.
The dugout11 Jun 2029
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Market15 Jan 2029
The offer from Ararat for Jesús Jiménez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market15 Jan 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportes Quindio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 Jan 2029
José Lloreda 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yosimarc Torres 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Juan David Ríos
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Deportes Quindio will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
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.
Market15 Jan 2029
The clock does Andrés Tello’s negotiating for him
7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Deportes Quindio could ask drops and the wages Andrés Tello can ask rise.
Market15 Jan 2029
Deportes Quindio have let the market know Jesús Jiménez can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad15 Jan 2029
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Deportes Quindio the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
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Squad1 Jan 2029
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Deportes Quindio had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad1 Jan 2029
José Lloreda 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 targets1 Jan 2029
Deportes Quindio asked and Junior said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Mauricio Castaño 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
7 new faces, and Deportes Quindio are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
Deportes Quindio have made the call to Leones. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets1 Jan 2029
A loan enquiry to Alianza Petrolera: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market1 Jan 2029
Jesús Jiménez returns from a loan that gave him nothing
4 appearances and 1 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.
The dugout1 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Duván Riascos, and the manager let it.
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Market4 Dec 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Dec 2028
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Yosimarc Torres 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.
Loan watch4 Dec 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Transfer targets4 Dec 2028
Deportivo Cali 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 targets4 Dec 2028
A loan move for Carlos Nemocón is in the works
Deportes Quindio have made the call to Santa Fe. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
“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 dugout4 Dec 2028
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.
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Uneasy
Squad6 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Santiago Roa 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.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
José Lloreda gets it from the manager
“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.
Loan watch6 Nov 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The captaincy has been taken off Santiago Roa. Deportes Quindio will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad6 Nov 2028
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Squad9 Oct 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Roa and Deportes Quindio agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Oct 2028
Santiago Roa 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.
Loan watch9 Oct 2028
“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 Deportes Quindio, and 4 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
Ronald Angulo 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 Ronald Angulo is on it.
The dugout9 Oct 2028
The manager makes Duván Riascos a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Deportes Quindio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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The dugout11 Sep 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Deportes Quindio may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Armando Preciado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yosimarc Torres was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch11 Sep 2028
“I watch every Deportes Quindio game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Persebaya runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Duván Riascos
“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 dugout11 Sep 2028
Ronald Angulo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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.
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Match2 Sep 2028
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Jesús Jiménez decided nobody was going anywhere. Arema had no time left to answer.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Window shuts: 18 in, 10 out at Persebaya
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Pedro Matos, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Persebaya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Words at Persebaya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Matos 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.
Transfer targets4 Sep 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Colón have kept their man, and Persebaya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces4 Sep 2028
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match2 Sep 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesús Jiménez. 1‑0 against Arema, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Aug 2028
Jhoao Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Roa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Aug 2028
“I did not go to Persebaya to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportes Quindio and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Duván Riascos
“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 dugout14 Aug 2028
Ronald Angulo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Deportes Quindio 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.
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Upbeat
Market3 Jul 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Persebaya have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Bruno Paraíba, 33, rolls back the years — 7.94
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Persebaya have done the hard part with Patriotas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Njabulo Blom 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.
Match1 Jul 2028
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Persebaya did not have in the autumn.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Persebaya asked and San Telmo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Jul 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bruno Paraíba. 1‑0 against Persijap, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words at Persebaya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Paraíba 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.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Deportes Quindio 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.
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The terraces22 Nov 2027
The mood at Deportes Quindio has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom22 Nov 2027
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Deportes Quindio is running low.
Market22 Nov 2027
Andrés Rivera 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 Quindio can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Jesús Cuero: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportes Quindio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportes Quindio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Nov 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Words at Deportes Quindio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jhonier Viveros 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.
Market22 Nov 2027
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Santiago Roa 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 Santiago Roa is on it.