The Valledupar Post
The terraces7 Aug 2028
Anger at Valledupar spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Francisco Martinez has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Valledupar can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Andres Vargas breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Santiago Gómez says Valledupar went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The Valledupar board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Valledupar
Juan David Vélez 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Yerry 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.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
Wages eat 126% of everything Valledupar earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market7 Aug 2028
César Mena leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. César Mena leaves Valledupar the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Javier Calle leaves for nothing
- Market Miguel Perez leaves for nothing
- Market Gustavo Cordoba placed on the list