“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cesar Vallejo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Jano Gordon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Jano Gordon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Jano Gordon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cesar Vallejo has been clear about where Aldhy Valencia stands, which is more than many ever get.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Johan Madrid trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Jano Gordon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Cesar Vallejo is running low.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cesar Vallejo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Jano Gordon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Cienciano defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The name of Frank Ysique has come up in conversations Cesar Vallejo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Pedro Requena was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Cesar Vallejo could ask drops and the wages Johan Madrid can ask rise.
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Brian Arias’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Jorge Luis Ramos plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Pedro Requena was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Carlos Beltrán was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Pedro Requena was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Pedro Requena was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cesar Vallejo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Italo Regalado was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Angel Romero, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
260% of the income goes out in wages at Cesar Vallejo
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Cesar Vallejo could ask drops and the wages Johan Madrid can ask rise.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Osnar Noronha has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
SquadJorge Luis Ramos is training like a man with a point to make
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
48 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.
5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Cesar Vallejo could ask drops and the wages Paulo Mesías can ask rise.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Osnar Noronha and Cesar Vallejo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cesar Vallejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Still no offer on the table, and Italo Regalado’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cesar Vallejo, and both men came out saying it was fine.