Marked for Jordan Ferrín
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Squad18 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Sérgio Mosquera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Contreras 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Millonarios are still strangers to each other
8 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jordan Ferrín 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Stiven Vega has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Stiven Vega has written the date down.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
James Aguirre knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and James Aguirre trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Leonardo Castro damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $528.8K — a club that wants Eber Moreno enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
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 targets7 Dec 2026
An offer of $430.0K for Eber Moreno
Millonarios have gone to Deportivo Pereira 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.
Transfer targets7 Dec 2026
Bogota wanted more than $230.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Contreras 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
Jorge Arias told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jorge Arias has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Millonarios.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Sebastián Ayala is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
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Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonardo Castro
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
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 Carlos Sarabia is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
James Aguirre 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.
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The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Something was said to Francisco Chaverra and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sebastián Ayala and Millonarios agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Millonarios, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Millonarios would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
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Match10 Oct 2026
Deportivo Pereira will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Millonarios were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market12 Oct 2026
Jordan Ferrín 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Millonarios right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Millonarios. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Contreras 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Manuel Arias kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Millonarios out
Out, 0‑2 to Tigres, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 7.18, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jordan Ferrín 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Contreras 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Manuel Arias was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Millonarios dressing room was either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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.