The Colón Post
Transfer targets15 Dec 2031
Fee done, terms next for Mateo Varela
Colón and Belgrano have settled on $52.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market15 Dec 2031
Anton Weckström asks to leave Colón
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets15 Dec 2031
The paperwork begins on Joaquín Ojeda
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Colón have done the hard part with Tigre, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Tempers go at Colón
Emanuel Pentimalli 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.
The dugout15 Dec 2031
Emanuel Pentimalli 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 Emanuel Pentimalli trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout15 Dec 2031
Anton Weckström 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.
Market15 Dec 2031
The Leo Ocampo story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Leo Ocampo signs something — a contract at Colón or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout15 Dec 2031
Anton Weckström has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Colón will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout15 Dec 2031
Brandon Ríos has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Brandon Ríos has written the date down.
In brief
- Market The clock does Ivan Luquetta’s negotiating for him
- Market Joaquín De Luca leaves for nothing
- Squad Felipe Santos starts on the language