The Universitario Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
The Malmo FF deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Alex Valera reports back to Universitario with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Universitario
Alex Valera and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alexi Gómez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nomme Kalju join the queue for Alex Pullchz
Add another name to the list: Nomme Kalju have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alex Pullchz. The answer from Universitario has not changed — yet.
Market31 Aug 2026
Universitario may not be able to give Josué Estrada what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Josué Estrada wants continental football; whether Universitario can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Universitario
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Alex Valera knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Universitario, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
When it matters, José Rivera plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The José Rivera story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until José Rivera signs something — a contract at Universitario or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Squad Diego Romero has settled at Universitario
- The dugout Jairo Concha keeps his manager's vote