The Deportes Quindio Sentinel
Match23 Jan 2027
Deportes Quindio taken apart
1‑4 to Santa Fe, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market25 Jan 2027
Sergio Pabón hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportes Quindio can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Jhoao Rodríguez
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Martín Payares 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 Deportes Quindio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market25 Jan 2027
As if he never left: Sebastian Gomez returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Sebastian Gomez is a Deportes Quindio player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market25 Jan 2027
As if he never left: Ivan Garcia returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Ivan Garcia is a Deportes Quindio player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market25 Jan 2027
Leonardo Ramirez is a Deportes Quindio player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Jhoao Rodríguez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jhoao Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
123% of the income goes out in wages at Deportes Quindio
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.
In brief
- Player ratings Martín Payares in the eights
- Boardroom Inquest at Deportes Quindio
- Squad Luis Caicedo knocks on the manager’s door