The Independiente Medellin Herald
Squad3 Jan 2028
65 days out for Yimy Gómez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Independiente Medellin will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market3 Jan 2028
Baldomero Perlaza 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 The request is on a desk at Independiente Medellin, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces3 Jan 2028
Independiente Medellin sell a favourite for $1.3M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Stiven Palomeque was one of the reasons people came, and $1.3M does not replace that by itself.
Market3 Jan 2028
Independiente Medellin sell Stiven Palomeque for $1.3M
Stiven Palomeque has left for Atletico Nacional in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market3 Jan 2028
A season away well spent by Luis Sandoval
34 games, 11 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Independiente Medellin now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
Independiente Medellin rebuffed over Maximiliano Gómez
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nacional have kept their man, and Independiente Medellin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Independiente Medellin
Gabriel Giraldo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Independiente Medellin lose Sebastián Puerta
57 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market3 Jan 2028
Jose Murillo steps up from the Independiente Medellin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jose Murillo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Boardroom $13.5M on the table at Independiente Medellin
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Independiente Medellin
- The dugout Didier Moreno has become a man the manager trusts