The Barranquilla Gazette
Squad8 Dec 2031
The knee: Camilo Romero out for 35 days
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Barranquilla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market8 Dec 2031
Sergio Uribe 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 Barranquilla can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Words exchanged at Barranquilla
Juan Camilo Chala and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad8 Dec 2031
A row about effort at Barranquilla
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jhon Navia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Dec 2031
The manager makes an example of Yandel Zúñiga
“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.
Transfer targets8 Dec 2031
A loan move for Duvan Barrios is in the works
Barranquilla have made the call to Deportes Tolima. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad8 Dec 2031
“I want to play”: Yandel Zúñiga speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Market8 Dec 2031
Talks stall between Barranquilla and Juan Diego Verdeza
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
The window opens at Barranquilla
A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.
In brief
- The dugout Juan Diego Verdeza asks for a word with the manager
- Market Edson Espinoza leaves for nothing
- Market Pablo Murillo leaves for nothing