The Cortulua Post
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javier Mejia
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cortulua lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Edwin Muriel out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cortulua will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Cortulua
Nicolas Montero 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Richard Moreno 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Luis Restrepo conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Portuguesa will make the call about Luis Restrepo this week. Cortulua have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market11 Jan 2027
The market said no: Jesus Santos stays put
Cortulua opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Jesus Santos stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
In brief
- Market Fernando Caicedo goes out on loan
- Market Julian Mina goes out on loan