The Leones Gazette
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Felipe Hincapié
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leones lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Alejandro Cardona keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leones may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Jul 2027
Juan José Castaño 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Leones
Bryan Caicedo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Leones
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Germán Meneses was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Wages swallow 103% of the Leones income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Bryan 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
No hiding place for Juan Diego Arboleda
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Diego Arboleda, and the manager let it.
Market19 Jul 2027
The Juan Diego Ceballos question follows Leones around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Juan Diego Ceballos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Yojhan Sánchez
- Squad Jonathan Marulanda loses a friend at Leones