The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Market31 Dec 2029
Universitario Popayan sell their best player to Aguilas Doradas
$450.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad31 Dec 2029
Gustavo Mendoza damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 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.
Market31 Dec 2029
José Cabrera 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 The request is on a desk at Universitario Popayan, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces31 Dec 2029
Supporters turn on the $450.0K sale of Nicolás Rengifo
He is going to Aguilas Doradas, the club has $450.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market31 Dec 2029
Francisco Mejia attracts admirers
The name of Francisco Mejia has come up in conversations Universitario Popayan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom31 Dec 2029
Alejandro Ramirez signs for Real Cartagena while still at Universitario Popayan
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alejandro Ramirez has agreed terms with Real Cartagena for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Universitario Popayan
Francisco Mejia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Dec 2029
James Rios is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Universitario Popayan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Dec 2029
A move Marcelo Lopez would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marcelo Lopez is living that version at Universitario Popayan, and it tends to show in the first month.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Universitario Popayan
- Transfer targets Door shut on Santiago Córdoba
- Transfer targets Universitario Popayan try to borrow Ronaldo Pájaro