Marked for Javier Ramirez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jorge Barrios 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Cortulua have made Cristian Giraldo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Victor Valencia 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Javier Ramirez has come up in conversations Cortulua were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Cortulua training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Barrios is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jesús Martínez and Cortulua agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Too much change too quickly at Cortulua
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.