The Real Cartagena Sentinel
Match13 Jan 2031
Real Cartagena sink to position 18
32 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market13 Jan 2031
Neider Parra 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 The request is on a desk at Real Cartagena, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Jan 2031
Words at Real Cartagena training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antony Medrano 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.
Transfer targets13 Jan 2031
Door shut on Juan Esteban Gallego
Real Cartagena asked and Millonarios said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market13 Jan 2031
Real Cartagena promote Luis Valencia from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luis Valencia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market13 Jan 2031
Real Cartagena promote Miguel Barrios from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Miguel Barrios has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market13 Jan 2031
Johan Ramirez steps up from the Real Cartagena academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Johan Ramirez 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.
Squad13 Jan 2031
César Bravo 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 Real Cartagena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Jan 2031
No place for José Caldera in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Real Cartagena are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Tomás Páez plays
- The dugout A door opens for Luis Guevara
- Squad Nerves in the Real Cartagena squad