Luis Millán

Striker - Bogota
15 Nov 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Luis Millán

56 Edition

The Bogota Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Qingdao West Coast come back empty-handed

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

The dugout

Alejandro Aguilar is still paying for one afternoon at Bogota

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

José Caicedo 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.

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jafé Pérez 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.

Squad

The formation has left Fabian Rosales behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Bogota will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Cristian Rivas has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Cristian Rivas keeps the shirt for now, at Bogota's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Bogota Courier

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words at Bogota training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Salazar 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Bogota

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

Market

Still no ink between Bogota and Wilmer Castillo

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

The dugout

Samuel Peréa 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.

The dugout

Yan Marmolejo 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 Yan Marmolejo is on it.

Market

Nobody at Bogota has picked up the phone to Luis Millán

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

In brief

53 Edition

The Bogota Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: David Reyes is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and ASIL Lysi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bogota is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Bogota 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

Luis Millán has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bogota they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bogota

Mauricio Medina 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 100% of everything Bogota earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

Juan Alberto Sánchez is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Juan Alberto Sánchez has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad

Jafé Pérez 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

The clock runs on Wilmer Castillo's contract

12 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrés Alfonso

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Alfonso, and the manager let it.

In brief

51 Edition

The Bogota Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Luis Millán agrees terms with Universitario Popayan

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bogota people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

Diego Montien says Bogota went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Andrés Monsalve

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bogota have done the hard part with Leones, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Union Magdalena tell Bogota: Jairo Pimienta is not for sale

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.

Squad

Mauricio Medina 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Doxa watching David Reyes

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bogota have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Juan Alberto Sánchez

“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.

Transfer targets

Bogota ask about Kevin Pérez

A loan enquiry to Junior: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Luis Rivas has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bogota 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.

In brief