The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Market5 Jul 2027
Terms done: Hector Restrepo is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Alianza Petrolera waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Universitario Popayan is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Santiago Noreña due for a Universitario Popayan medical
Everything agreed with Envigado, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market5 Jul 2027
Aguilas Doradas watching Santiago Bacca
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Universitario Popayan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
No thanks: Ronaldo Pájaro rejects the move
Universitario Popayan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Deportivo Cali, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Universitario Popayan
Yerry Zapata 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Universitario Popayan lose Alfredo Barrios
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Door shut on Cristián Blanco
Universitario Popayan asked and Atletico Nacional said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Andres Rodriguez out for 16 days
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Andres Rodriguez, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Player of the month: Miguel Muriel
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Universitario Popayan prefer.
In brief
- Transfer targets Universitario Popayan try to borrow Éwil Murillo
- Boardroom Universitario Popayan sign 6 boys into the academy
- The dugout When it matters, Sergio Barrios plays