The Valledupar Post
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jhonny Meza damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Hugo Quintero breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Jan 2027
Daniel Palacios hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valledupar can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Universitario Popayan deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Daniel Palacios reports back to Valledupar with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Valledupar
Duvan Cuadrado 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Valledupar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ronaldo Mejía 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.
In brief
- Market Valledupar and Ezequiel Rossi are talking past each other
- Market Valledupar pick up Valentín Senatore for nothing