The Real Cartagena Sentinel
Squad12 Jul 2027
Daniel Palacios damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Jaen Pineda puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Real Cartagena, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market12 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Juan David Rodríguez
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan David Rodríguez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Real Cartagena the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market12 Jul 2027
Guillermo Gómez has said yes to Bogota
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Real Cartagena have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Devan Tanton: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Real Cartagena have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Fredy Montero in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Real Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Real Cartagena baulk at the price for Yerry Hurtado
Cortulua wanted more than $5.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Real Cartagena
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan David Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Reynaldo Fontalvo shuts the door again
9 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
In brief
- Player ratings Guillermo Tegüé was the difference for Real Cartagena
- Transfer targets Real Cartagena ask about Matías Romero
- The dugout The form table has caught Johan Portilla