From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bogota can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Jan 2027
As if he never left: Sergio Lemos returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Sergio Lemos is a Bogota player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market25 Jan 2027
The shirt still fits. Freddy Torres is back at Bogota, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Jan 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 170% of everything Bogota earn
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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
The afternoon belonged to Kevin Castro
A mark of 7.58, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Cristián Mosquera plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
Brayan Castro hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bogota can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
Jhorman Solís hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bogota can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brayan Nazarith commits to Bogota for another 4 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
“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 Bogota, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 389% of everything Bogota earn
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market21 Dec 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Cristian Rivas reports back to Bogota with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A new face in his position, and Andrés Buelvas suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Bogota have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bogota they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” José Caicedo and Bogota agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Bogota will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of José Caicedo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Dec 2026
Diego Montien is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bogota has been clear about where Diego Montien stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market7 Dec 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jhorman Solís has his answer from Bogota; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bogota can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
496% of the income goes out in wages at Bogota
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Harold Sandoval may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager plants his flag on Cristian Rivas
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Cristian Rivas’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Rivas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market16 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Cristian Rivas may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Cristian Rivas 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 Bogota, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Bogota will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
“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 Bogota, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Nov 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
496% of the income goes out in wages at Bogota
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
“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 Bogota, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Jefferson Racines, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Harold Sandoval is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Mauricio Medina has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Wiler Garzón keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Wiler Garzón plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 873% of everything Bogota earn
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Cristian Rivas 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 Cristian Rivas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Sep 2026
Bogota have let the market know Cristian Rivas can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
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Squad
Questions about Luis Rivas on the training pitch
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Wiler Garzón keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Wiler Garzón plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Bogota will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Bogota, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 740% of everything Bogota earn
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Cristian Rivas 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” David Reyes and Bogota agree another 4 years.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clock does Harold Sandoval’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Bogota could ask drops and the wages Harold Sandoval can ask rise.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bogota have made Cristian Rivas available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Cristian Rivas has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Bogota out
Out, 0‑1 to Independiente Medellin, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kevin Castro 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 Bogota this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Rivas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bogota, another week without a signature from Juan Camilo Moreno.
Market10 Aug 2026
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Matteo Frigerio arrives at Bogota with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kevin Castro and Bogota agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Bogota
Kevin Castro 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Bogota has picked up the phone to Kevin Castro
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Cristian Rivas asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.