The Cortulua Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Enzo Fernández goes
Werder Bremen paid $14.6M and Cortulua took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Freddy Herrera runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Camilo Medina signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Camilo Medina commits to Cortulua for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cortulua
Camilo Medina 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Juan Valencia wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Juan Valencia 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Edwin Restrepo's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Match8 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Cortulua?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Union Magdalena? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Alejandro Giraldo was immovable
12 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
In brief
- Player ratings Pablo Perez ran the game
- Market The shop window has Cristian Bacca in it