The Bogota Courier
Squad30 Aug 2027
Edwin Montero damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Bogota
Brayan Cuero and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market30 Aug 2027
Wilmer Castillo attracts admirers
The name of Wilmer Castillo has come up in conversations Bogota were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
98% of the income goes out in wages at Bogota
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Jafé Pérez gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Yan Marmolejo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yan Marmolejo is on it.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
The manager makes Kevin Salazar a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Bogota. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jafé Pérez: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Bogota will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Jhorman Solís knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jhorman Solís trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad The penny has dropped for Kevin Salazar
- Loan watch Luis Rivas first choice at Juazeirense
- Boardroom The Bogota production line keeps running