The Atletico Bucaramanga Chronicle
The terraces28 Jan 2030
Atletico Bucaramanga sell a favourite for $4.5M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Alejandro Rodríguez was one of the reasons people came, and $4.5M does not replace that by itself.
Market28 Jan 2030
Atletico Bucaramanga sell Alejandro Rodríguez for $4.5M
Alejandro Rodríguez has left for Basaksehir in a $4.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market28 Jan 2030
Miguel Silva 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 Atletico Bucaramanga can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Jan 2030
Miguel Silva has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Atletico Bucaramanga they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match26 Jan 2030
The run at home goes on for Atletico Bucaramanga
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad28 Jan 2030
Aldair Gutiérrez 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 Atletico Bucaramanga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jan 2030
Words at Atletico Bucaramanga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aldair Zárate is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match26 Jan 2030
Félix Charrupí’s goal not enough for Atletico Bucaramanga
Félix Charrupí scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Deportes Tolima, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Leonardo Flores
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Javier Quintero signs on for more
- Player ratings Álex Segura runs at them all day
- Player ratings The referee tires of Gustavo Charrupi