The Universitario Popayan Gazette
Market16 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Juan Carlos Caicedo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Carlos Caicedo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Universitario Popayan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Universitario Popayan
Nicolas Moreno and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Camilo 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Jesus Perez knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Universitario Popayan, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Aug 2027
Still no ink between Universitario Popayan and Jesus Martinez
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Universitario Popayan, another week without a signature from Jesus Martinez.
Market16 Aug 2027
Universitario Popayan put Facundo Nicolay up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Facundo Nicolay may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- Squad Mateo Cienfuegos has settled at Universitario Popayan
- Squad Welcome back, Daniel Moreno