“I did not go to Deportes Tolima to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportivo Pereira and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.
The captaincy has been taken off Marco Pérez. Deportivo Pereira will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
“I did not go to Deportes Tolima to sit and watch. I want to come back to Deportivo Pereira and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportivo Pereira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Miguel Betancourth and Deportivo Pereira agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Pereira can pretend not to have heard.
Deportivo Cali pay $570.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Felipe Mosquera has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Deportivo Pereira know, and have known for weeks.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Pereira can pretend not to have heard.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jefferson Gomez and Deportivo Pereira agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportivo Pereira has to find a result from somewhere.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportivo Pereira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Pérez and Deportivo Pereira agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
He is 19, and nobody at Deportivo Pereira signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
A new face in his position, and Yimy Gómez suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Deportivo Pereira have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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.
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Deportivo Pereira have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
At 35 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Deportivo Pereira have a decision that made itself.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yuber Quiñónes and Deportivo Pereira agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Deportivo Pereira, and both men came out saying it was fine.
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Pereira can pretend not to have heard.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Pérez and Deportivo Pereira agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.