The Leones Gazette
Market13 Sep 2027
Juan Cázares puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Leones, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Santiago Martínez: 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.” Leones have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market13 Sep 2027
Santiago Montoya is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leones is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Leones
Juan Diego Ceballos 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Felipe Gómez 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 dugout13 Sep 2027
Johan Martínez 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Jorge Aristizábal told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jorge Aristizábal has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Leones.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Óscar Segura has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Leones 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.
Match13 Sep 2027
Continental football is in reach for Leones
37 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Leones and Juan Felipe Hincapié
- The dugout Roinner Fruto knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Word from the training ground: Yojhan Sánchez