Carlos Olmos

Central Defender - Barranquilla
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Carlos Olmos

19 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Deportivo Pasto come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Barranquilla did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Adrián Mosquera due for a Barranquilla medical

Everything agreed with Independiente Medellin, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barranquilla

José Luis Caicedo 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.

Squad

Marlon Carabali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marlon Carabali commits to Barranquilla for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Barranquilla rebuffed over Jordan Ferrín

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Millonarios have kept their man, and Barranquilla go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Jhon Navia 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 dugout

José Luis Caicedo knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barranquilla, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no ink between Barranquilla and Marlon Carabali

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Barranquilla, another week without a signature from Marlon Carabali.

Squad

Carlos Olmos slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Carlos Olmos is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Castillo out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Barranquilla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Marlon Carabali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marlon Carabali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barranquilla the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barranquilla

Neymar Uribe 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.

Market

Still no ink between Barranquilla and Marlon Carabali

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Barranquilla, another week without a signature from Marlon Carabali.

Squad

The armband comes off Jhon Navia

Barranquilla will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout

Jhon Navia knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barranquilla, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

1 Edition

The Barranquilla Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Howell Mena stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Howell Mena and Barranquilla agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Barranquilla

José Luis Caicedo 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.

Squad

Jhon Navia 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.

Market

Nobody at Barranquilla has picked up the phone to Howell Mena

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Barranquilla

14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

José Luis Caicedo 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 José Luis Caicedo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief