Marked for Jared Ulloa
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Jairo Martínez out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Alianza Lima will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Alianza Lima have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Fernando Gaibor, 35, rolls back the years — 8.36
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.36 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Alianza Lima did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match12 Jun 2027
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Alianza Lima have 3 straight wins of it.
Market14 Jun 2027
Deportivo Municipal pay $960.0K, 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Luis Advíncula and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Alianza Lima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Aquino 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Joazhiño Arroé damages knee ligaments — 82 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 82 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Alianza Lima is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Alianza Lima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
$87.0K on the table at San Martín. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets28 Dec 2026
Alianza Lima offered $170.0K; Universitario said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market28 Dec 2026
Sport Huancayo pay $360.0K, 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Alianza Lima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Aquino 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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
$7.0M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Joazhiño Arroé damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
$12.9M was the most the club would pay and Osasuna were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market21 Dec 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Alianza Lima people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets21 Dec 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Supporters turn on the $7.0M sale of Federico Girotti
He is going to Melgar, the club has $7.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market21 Dec 2026
The offer from Universitario for Angel De La Cruz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Pedro Aquino 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Yorkman Tello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Cantero and Alianza Lima agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Luis Advíncula and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Aquino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Alan Cantero talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alianza Lima know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jared Ulloa, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Guillermo Viscarra has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Christian Ortiz 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brady Paz 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Ramos commits to Alianza Lima for another 4 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Aquino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Ariel Muñoz has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Alianza Lima have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Christian Ortiz 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Luis Ramos knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luis Ramos trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Guillermo Viscarra has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.