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155 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Terms done: John Córdoba is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Deportivo Pereira waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Jordan Ferrín 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha has a hand in both — 7.75

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.75, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Daniel Ruiz the difference as Millonarios beat Jaguares

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Daniel Ruiz. 2‑0 against Jaguares, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.60. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Navarro

“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.

Market

José Mercado wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

David Rodríguez agrees terms with Deportes Quindio

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Millonarios people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Tití Rodríguez

Millonarios and Junior have settled on $610.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan José Ramírez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan José Ramírez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Luis Ruíz puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Javier Burrai signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Javier Burrai and Millonarios agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on John Córdoba

12 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Millonarios find a way past Junior

Junior made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

In brief

153 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Felipe Cifuentes has said yes to Deportivo Cali

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Millonarios have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

John Córdoba 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Millonarios turn down Deportivo Pereira for John Córdoba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

$540.0K settles it between the clubs for Jeinner Fuentes

Deportes Tolima have accepted the money. What Millonarios do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Javier Burrai stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Javier Burrai and Millonarios agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Andrés Llinás has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Iké Ugbo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sheffield Wednesday have kept their man, and Millonarios go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

152 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Juan José Ramírez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Patriotas waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Sebastián Valencia 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Independiente Medellin

A 2‑0 win over Independiente Medellin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Daniel Ruiz

Marked 8.25 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luis Marimón at his very best

Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Millonarios.

Market

Samuel Martín wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

151 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

John Córdoba agrees terms with Deportivo Pereira

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Millonarios people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Felipe Cifuentes 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Nicolás López keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

4 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Millonarios

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Atletico Nacional

Atletico Nacional left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Jhoan Hernández has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

In brief

150 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Juan José Ramírez asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Daniel Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ruiz wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Transfer targets

Daniel Fila turns down Millonarios

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Basel keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

Millonarios cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market

Deportivo Pereira expected to open talks for John Córdoba

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Millonarios will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Envigado

0‑1 to Envigado, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

149 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

John Córdoba asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan José Ramírez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan José Ramírez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Cristian Santander: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

La Equidad come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

7 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Market

Cristian Graciano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

148 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

14 days out for Sebastián Navarro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Match

After 5 games, Millonarios finally taste it again

The first defeat in 5 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Leones; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Andrey Estupiñán

“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.

Match

Millonarios at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 3, 38 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

In brief

147 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

23 days out for Sebastián Navarro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Andrés Amaya wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Aguilas Doradas

A 1‑0 win over Aguilas Doradas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Edinson Largacha

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edinson Largacha, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Luis Marimón takes the honours

Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Millonarios had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

146 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

31 days out for Sebastián Navarro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Jordan Ferrín sends Millonarios through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jordan Ferrín obliged against Jaguares. 4‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Millonarios.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jordan Ferrín takes the afternoon — 9.00

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jordan Ferrín provided it, and the 9.00 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Millonarios up to position 3

34 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Nobody wants to play Millonarios right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Luis Marimón the difference as Millonarios beat Fortaleza CEIF

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Luis Marimón. 2‑1 against Fortaleza CEIF, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

145 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

41 days out for Sebastián Navarro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan José Ramírez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan José Ramírez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jaine Barreiro and Millonarios agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Match

Millonarios find a way past America de Cali

America de Cali made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Player ratings

John Córdoba was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give José Mercado what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. José Mercado wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

144 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Both of them John Córdoba's — 8.37

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

David Contreras: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Market

Andrés Llinás has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Once Caldas

A 2‑0 win over Once Caldas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

143 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

John Córdoba puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near John Córdoba

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Santa Fe

0‑1 to Santa Fe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

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Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Sebastián Ramírez what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sebastián Ramírez wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Jhon Riascos signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jhon Riascos commits to Millonarios for another 4 years.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Daniel Ruiz has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout Amaury Torralvo dropped after a run of poor form
142 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 44. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastián Navarro out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millonarios will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Stiven Palomeque says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Millonarios are at home on the road

4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Daniel Ruiz the difference as Millonarios beat Cortulua

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Daniel Ruiz. 1‑0 against Cortulua, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Market

Jhoan Hernández has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The dugout

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In brief

141 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Daniel Ruiz wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Javier Burrai gets it from the manager

“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.

Match

Deportes Tolima take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

The run is over for Millonarios

5 matches without defeat, and then Deportes Tolima. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

In brief

140 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Stiven Vega: 16 seasons and counting

265 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Millonarios know exactly what they have.

Match

Nobody wants to play Millonarios right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jhon Riascos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jhon Riascos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

Another one collected away from home

3 on the bounce on the road for Millonarios. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Millonarios see off Deportivo Pasto

Three points for Millonarios, 1‑0 the final word against Deportivo Pasto in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

139 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

90 days out for Sebastián Navarro after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millonarios will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

John Córdoba puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Cristian Graciano keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Vintage Andrey Estupiñán — 8.35

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.35, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match

Nobody wants to play Millonarios right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Boardroom

Samuel Quiñonez has agreed to leave Millonarios for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Millonarios find a way past Atletico Bucaramanga

Atletico Bucaramanga made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

138 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 97 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No mercy from Millonarios

La Equidad will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Millonarios were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

A brace, and John Córdoba takes the afternoon — 8.43

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. John Córdoba provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Edwin Caicedo, 33, rolls back the years — 8.23

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.23 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Nobody wants to play Millonarios right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Andrés Amaya has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

50 goals in the shirt for Daniel Ruiz

50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.

In brief

137 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sebastián Navarro breaks a bone — 105 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 105 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Brian Diaz damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

John Córdoba sends Millonarios past Valledupar

It finished 1‑0, and it was John Córdoba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Millonarios.

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John Córdoba takes the honours

Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Millonarios had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

136 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastián Navarro out for 114 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millonarios will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Diaz

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Millonarios strike at the death to beat Jaguares

There were 86 minutes on the clock and Jaguares had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Millonarios did not stop to explain themselves.

Squad

John Córdoba takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

The dugout

Edinson Largacha: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jhon Riascos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jhon Riascos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jhomier Guerrero stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhomier Guerrero and Millonarios agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

John Córdoba the difference as Millonarios beat Jaguares

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: John Córdoba. 3‑1 against Jaguares, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

135 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastián Navarro out for 122 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millonarios will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Diaz

37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Sebastián Mosquera was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Millonarios march on in the cup

Llaneros are out and Millonarios go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Cruel end for Llaneros as Millonarios pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Millonarios scored in the 100th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market

John Córdoba asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Terms done: Jhon Azcárate is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Inhulets waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Andrés Llinás has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

In brief

134 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastián Navarro out for 129 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millonarios will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Diaz

44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Millonarios turn down Arsenal Tula for Jhon Azcárate

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro reaches 500 appearances

500 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Match

Deportivo Cali take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

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Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Sebastián Ramírez what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sebastián Ramírez wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

In brief

133 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Independiente Medellin

A 2‑1 win over Independiente Medellin, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Jhoan Hernández what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jhoan Hernández wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Edinson Largacha in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Jhoan Hernández signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jhoan Hernández and Millonarios agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

John Córdoba in the eights

A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

132 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jhon Azcárate has said yes to Potenza

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Millonarios have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Felipe Cifuentes says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Daniel Ruiz wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jhon Riascos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jhon Riascos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Ruiz and Millonarios agree another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Atletico Nacional

0‑2 to Atletico Nacional, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

131 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

John Córdoba 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Market

Cristian Graciano has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

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Andrés Llinás stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.50 on the card, and the Millonarios support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

Javier Burrai dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

130 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Jordan Ferrín, 21, steals the show — 8.16

Marked 8.16 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Millonarios

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Real Cartagena

A 3‑1 win over Real Cartagena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

One of their own: Jet Lee Espín

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

The drought breaks for Millonarios

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Real Cartagena were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Market

One of our own: Felipe Ramirez joins the Millonarios first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Felipe Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Wilmar Restrepo steps up from the Millonarios academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wilmar Restrepo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

129 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Millonarios refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 76 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Juan José Ramírez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets

Thomás Amilivia stays at Leones as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Millonarios will try again when the window opens; Leones may not be selling by then.

Market

Persik come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Amaya what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Amaya wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

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In brief

128 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Rodrigo Ureña out for 41 days

41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Jordan Ferrín says no to Envigado

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jordan Ferrín had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

The dugout

Cristian Graciano: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Daniel Montero stays at Universitario Popayan as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Millonarios will try again when the window opens; Universitario Popayan may not be selling by then.

Market

Juan José Ramírez asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jhon Riascos

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jhon Riascos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Matías Cóccaro

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Racing Club have kept their man, and Millonarios go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

127 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

$7.7M settles it between the clubs for Daniel Montero

Universitario Popayan have accepted the money. What Millonarios do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

John Córdoba asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

Millonarios turn down Junior for John Córdoba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Juan José Ramírez agrees terms with Deportes Quindio

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Millonarios people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Jhomier Guerrero honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Millonarios had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move Andrés Carabalí would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Andrés Carabalí is living that version at Millonarios, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Jorge Arias comes home

The shirt still fits. Jorge Arias is back at Millonarios, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

In brief

126 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Rodrigo Ureña out for 58 days

58 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Javier Burrai: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Terms done: Jordan Ferrín is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Deportivo Cali waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

$150.0K settles it between the clubs for Francisco Fydriszewski

Junior have accepted the money. What Millonarios do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

No deal for Yadir Meneses at that price

Millonarios offered $410.0K; Atletico Bucaramanga 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.

Market

Andrés Llinás has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Javi Muñoz

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Almería have kept their man, and Millonarios go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

José Mercado signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” José Mercado commits to Millonarios for another 4 years.

In brief

125 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

Continental nights are coming to Millonarios

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Match

Millonarios bow out of the cup

Junior go through and Millonarios go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

Millonarios are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 76 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

A European lesson for Millonarios

0‑1 against Penarol. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Transfer targets

Millonarios bid $9.1M for Julian Angulo

The offer went to Real Santander this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The season belongs to Jhomier Guerrero

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Millonarios have had the benefit of it.

Market

Camilo Charris 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

124 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña damages knee ligaments — 74 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 74 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.

Market

Jordan Ferrín asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Transfer targets

Francisco Fydriszewski is a medical away from Millonarios

The deal with Junior is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

John Córdoba has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Carlos Fernández rejects the move

Millonarios had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Oviedo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Market

Trujillanos come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Boardroom

Millonarios beat the market to Francisco Fydriszewski from Junior

Junior will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Francisco Fydriszewski has pre-agreed a move to Millonarios, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

123 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

The dugout

John Córdoba says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

A European lesson for Millonarios

1‑2 against Colo-Colo. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz is carrying Millonarios

21 goals and a season average of 7.56. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

Amaury Torralvo puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Daniel Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ruiz wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Javier Burrai signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Javier Burrai commits to Millonarios for another 2 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

A masterclass from John Córdoba

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

122 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Andrey Estupiñán: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

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Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Cristian Graciano what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Cristian Graciano wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Jaine Barreiro's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Javier Burrai

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Market

The John Córdoba question follows Millonarios around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with John Córdoba’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

121 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña damages knee ligaments — 98 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.

Match

Millonarios up to position 2

76 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Juan José Ramírez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

Cristian Santander gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Daniel Ruiz 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.

The dugout

Edwin Caicedo 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.

The dugout

A door opens for Sebastián Valencia

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

120 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodrigo Ureña

105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

A chastening European night for Millonarios

0‑3 against Grêmio. The honest reading is not that the players were poor; it is that the distance between this club and that one is currently measured in things money takes years to buy.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Carlos Sarabia has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Andrés Amaya has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

John Córdoba is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

119 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Javier Burrai

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Javier Burrai.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Millonarios dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Javier Burrai dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cristian Graciano

“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.

Squad

Jordan Ferrín slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jordan Ferrín is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

When it matters, Andrés Llinás 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.

In brief

118 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wins at Millonarios

21 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Millonarios do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Millonarios came through the finding-out well against Grêmio.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz is carrying Millonarios

21 goals and a season average of 7.56. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

No place for Rodrigo Ureña on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Millonarios pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daniel Ruiz

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Javier Burrai

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sebastián Valencia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Valencia, and the manager let it.

In brief

117 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Millonarios up to position 2

76 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Andrés Llinás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Millonarios beat the market to Edwin Cardona from Atletico Nacional

Atletico Nacional will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Edwin Cardona has pre-agreed a move to Millonarios, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Wuilker Fariñez makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

No place for Rodrigo Ureña on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Millonarios pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

The form table has caught Javier Burrai

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

116 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Carlos Sarabia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

Andrés Llinás gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Sebastián Ramírez what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sebastián Ramírez wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Millonarios lose Augusto Sáez

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Daniel Ruiz gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniel Ruiz is on it.

The dugout

John Córdoba 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 Millonarios, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Edwin Caicedo wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Millonarios have no good answer.

In brief

115 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Fabián Suárez Chalares

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The season ends: position 2 for Millonarios

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 76 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Match

Millonarios come up short in Europe

0‑1 away to the standard of Penarol. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Wuilker Fariñez keeps Millonarios in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout

Stiven Vega says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

John Córdoba has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jaine Barreiro and Millonarios agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

114 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The run at home goes on for Millonarios

20 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match

Millonarios march on in the cup

Deportivo Cali are out and Millonarios go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

21 goals and a season average of 7.56 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout

Edwin Caicedo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Jordan Ferrín, 21, steals the show — 7.68

Marked 7.68 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Daniel Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ruiz wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaine Barreiro commits to Millonarios for another 2 years.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luis Mena

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Mena will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

113 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

20 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 20 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Match

A European night to remember for Millonarios

2‑1 against Colo-Colo, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

20 goals and a season average of 7.54 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Millonarios refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 70 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Player ratings

Edinson Largacha beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

In brief

112 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose

19 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

The run at home goes on for Millonarios

19 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

The dugout

Rodrigo Ureña: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

19 goals and a season average of 7.52 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

Carlos Sarabia is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Squad

Fabián Suárez Chalares reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Andrey Estupiñán

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Andrey Estupiñán.

In brief

111 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose

17 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Juan Alberto Mosquera has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Amaya what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Amaya wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Sebastián Navarro at his very best

Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Millonarios.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near David Contreras

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Millonarios are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Valencia

“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.

In brief

110 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Stiven Palomeque damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Millonarios

18 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

Fabián Suárez Chalares runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Sebastián Valencia: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

At 20, Jet Lee Espín is already the best thing here

An average of 6.60 in a first team he is several years too young for. Millonarios have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luis Mena

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luis Mena will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

In brief

109 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Stiven Palomeque damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Millonarios

17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Market

Juan José Ramírez puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

David Contreras says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Jaine Barreiro goes up and wins it — 6.41

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 6.41 for the rest of it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan José Ramírez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan José Ramírez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Millonarios make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Millonarios have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

In brief

108 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Millonarios run riot against Deportes Tolima

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz scores twice — 8.62

Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Millonarios are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 61 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

19 goals and a season average of 7.53 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Vintage Andrey Estupiñán — 8.70

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.70, and nobody on the pitch better.

The dugout

Luis Marimón keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief

107 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque

38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

13 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Match

Nobody wins at Millonarios

16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings

Both of them Daniel Ruiz's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

17 goals and a season average of 7.50 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrey Estupiñán yet — 8.12

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Juan Alberto Mosquera has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

106 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Dewar Victoria: 11 seasons and counting

68 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Millonarios know exactly what they have.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give John Córdoba what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. John Córdoba wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Albian Ajeti rejects the move

Millonarios had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Basel, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Sebastián Navarro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sebastián Navarro commits to Millonarios for another 4 years.

Market

Luis Mena is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Junior tell Millonarios: Francisco Fydriszewski is not for sale

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.

In brief

105 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Stiven Palomeque damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.

Match

Millonarios run riot against La Equidad

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match

Nobody wins at Millonarios

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz scores twice — 8.69

Two goals and a mark of 8.69 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

11 unbeaten for Millonarios

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Millonarios did not have in the autumn.

Market

Juan José Ramírez 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrey Estupiñán yet — 8.00

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Daniel Ruiz

15 goals and a season average of 7.47 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

104 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque

63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Wuilker Fariñez wins the shoot-out

2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

Cup progress for Millonarios

A 0‑0 win over Envigado, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Sebastián Mosquera beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Millonarios up to position 3

51 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Terms done: Carlos Sarabia is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Deportivo Cali waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Millonarios make home a hard place to visit

14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The dugout

Amaury Torralvo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief

103 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque

71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

3 goals for Daniel Ruiz

The match ball belongs to Daniel Ruiz, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Iván Díaz has said yes to Once Caldas

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Millonarios have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Match

Millonarios make home a hard place to visit

13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Real Cartagena come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Heinz Fuchs turns down Millonarios

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rapid Wien keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.42 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

102 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 79 days

79 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Felipe Vargas

Millonarios and Universitario Popayan have settled on $5.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Terms done: Juan José Ramírez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Junior waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Not going: Jhon Riascos stays at Millonarios

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Leones had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near John Córdoba

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Millonarios say no — this time

The offer from Foolad for Jordan Ferrín 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.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Sérgio Mosquera gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sérgio Mosquera has just signed for Millonarios, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Iván Díaz asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

In brief

101 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 88 days

88 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Nicolás López

Millonarios and Deportes Tolima have settled on $280.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Player ratings

Andrey Estupiñán, 34, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Juan José Ramírez asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Millonarios

12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Transfer targets

Leonardo Godoy turns down Millonarios

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Independiente keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Boardroom

Luis Mena signs for Santa Fe while still at Millonarios

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Luis Mena has agreed terms with Santa Fe for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Luis Mena is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

100 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 97 days

97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

$130.0K settles it between the clubs for Francisco Fydriszewski

Junior have accepted the money. What Millonarios do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near John Córdoba

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Juan Alberto Mosquera is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Léo Bonatini

Millonarios asked and Braga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Fabián Suárez Chalares the difference as Millonarios beat Independiente Medellin

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Fabián Suárez Chalares. 2‑0 against Independiente Medellin, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

99 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 105 days

105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Terms done: Jhon Riascos is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Valledupar waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Not going: Iván Díaz stays at Millonarios

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bogota had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

John Córdoba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Atletico Nacional come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Heinz Fuchs rejects the move

Millonarios had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rapid Wien, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Andrey Estupiñán 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.

Market

Andrés Llinás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Javier Burrai

“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.

In brief

98 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 40. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Stiven Palomeque damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 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.

Market

Jhon Riascos turns Leones down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Match

Millonarios make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market

Eyes on Fabián Suárez Chalares again

The phone has started ringing about Fabián Suárez Chalares again, and this time the name on the line is Atletico Nacional. Millonarios are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Žan Celar rejects the move

Millonarios had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Basel, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Basel tell Millonarios: Albian Ajeti is not for sale

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.

In brief

97 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stiven Palomeque

121 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Millonarios run riot against Real Cartagena

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Jorge Arias asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Market

John Córdoba wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Basel tell Millonarios: Adrian Grbić is not for sale

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Fabián Suárez Chalares

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

96 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Stiven Palomeque out for 129 days

129 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Millonarios run riot against Deportivo Pereira

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Daniel Ruiz wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan Alberto Mosquera

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Alberto Mosquera will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Match

Millonarios make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

One of those days for Daniel Ruiz

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

John Córdoba in the eights

A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

95 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Daniel Ruiz 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Aguilas Doradas

Aguilas Doradas left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Juan José Ramírez has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Boardroom

Inquest at Millonarios

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jorge Di María to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Javier Burrai

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

No place in the plan for John Córdoba

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings

Carlos Abeldaño could have had three

10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief

94 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Millonarios run riot against Llaneros

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Daniel Ruiz's — 8.57

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Millonarios end the wait against Llaneros

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Millonarios make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The terraces

Millonarios supporters have found a favourite in Carlos Abeldaño

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Carlos Abeldaño has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Sebastián Navarro was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

93 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Wuilker Fariñez wins the shoot-out

3 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

Millonarios through in the cup

A 2‑2 win over Deportivo Pasto, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Sebastián Mosquera, 21, steals the show — 8.01

Marked 8.01 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

6 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Manuel Rodríguez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Javier Burrai signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Javier Burrai commits to Millonarios for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Andrés Amaya has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

The terraces

One of their own: Sebastián Mosquera

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

92 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Only the photograph left for Juan Alberto Mosquera

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Alberto Mosquera will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrés Amaya

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Amaya, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Andrey Estupiñán 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 Andrey Estupiñán trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Rodrigo Ureña

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jorge Di María was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Millonarios dressing room was either.

In brief

91 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Santa Fe

0‑1 to Santa Fe, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Edwin Caicedo did the work nobody counts — 7.20

11 combined actions and 7.20. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Jhon Riascos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jhon Riascos and Millonarios agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Jorge Di María faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jorge Di María after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Cristian Santander

“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.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Millonarios pick somebody else ahead of Jorge Arias

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

90 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cortulua end the Millonarios run at 10

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 10 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Squad

Camilo Charris arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Camilo Charris has, at Millonarios, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Andrés Llinás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

A bad afternoon for Millonarios against Cortulua

1‑2 to Cortulua, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Javier Burrai gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings

The game went through Edwin Caicedo — 7.09

Marked 7.09 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

89 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Boardroom

Millonarios to lose Juan Alberto Mosquera for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Juan Alberto Mosquera has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Boardroom

Millonarios beat the market to Franco Leys from Deportivo Pasto

Deportivo Pasto will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Franco Leys has pre-agreed a move to Millonarios, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match

Millonarios rescue it on 88 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Deportes Tolima had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Luis Marimón

“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.

Market

Samuel Martín has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Carlos Abeldaño: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Millonarios will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief

88 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Whatever happens, Millonarios do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

John Córdoba has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market

Juan Alberto Mosquera has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Carlos Abeldaño

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against Deportivo Pasto

A 1‑0 win over Deportivo Pasto, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Sebastián Navarro — 7.12

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 7.12, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

In brief

87 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Daniel Ruiz wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

John Córdoba sends Millonarios past Atletico Bucaramanga

It finished 2‑1, and it was John Córdoba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Millonarios.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.59. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

One of those days for John Córdoba

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Edinson Largacha gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Jorge Di María: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief

86 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

John Córdoba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Millonarios

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

The run is over for Millonarios

4 matches without defeat, and then La Equidad. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

The dugout

Andrés Llinás gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Cristian Graciano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Daniel Ruiz

7.56, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Millonarios had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Millonarios pick somebody else ahead of Andrey Estupiñán

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

85 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Sérgio Mosquera: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Javier Burrai 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.

Squad

A move Luis Ruíz would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Luis Ruíz is living that version at Millonarios, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Fabián Suárez Chalares what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fabián Suárez Chalares wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrey Estupiñán

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrey Estupiñán, and the manager let it.

Match

Jhomier Guerrero the difference as Millonarios beat Fortaleza CEIF

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jhomier Guerrero. 2‑0 against Fortaleza CEIF, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Daniel Ruiz

Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

  • Player ratings Pedro Bravo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings Jhomier Guerrero was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Millonarios
84 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

John Córdoba scores twice — 8.37

Two goals and a mark of 8.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Stiven Vega: 15 seasons and counting

257 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Millonarios know exactly what they have.

Match

Millonarios cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaine Barreiro commits to Millonarios for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Andrés Amaya wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Millonarios find a way past Jaguares

Jaguares made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Pedro Bravo

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

In brief

  • Match Millonarios settle it inside twenty minutes
  • Player ratings Pedro Bravo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Rodrigo Ureña
83 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Millonarios through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over Llaneros, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Jordan Ferrín, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 9.66

A mark of 9.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Jordan Ferrín takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Jordan Ferrín turns Kolos down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

The dugout

Sebastián Valencia: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Los Angeles Football Club come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Millonarios did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Edwin Caicedo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Edwin Caicedo wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

In brief

82 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Cristian Graciano says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

John Córdoba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Market

Kolos watching Jordan Ferrín

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Millonarios have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings

Jhomier Guerrero takes the honours

Marked 7.44 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Millonarios had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Valencia

“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.

The dugout

Millonarios pick somebody else ahead of Rodrigo Ureña

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

81 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Millonarios throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Independiente Medellin the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Millonarios will enjoy reviewing.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Llinás what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Llinás wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of John Córdoba at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Millonarios.

Player ratings

Edwin Caicedo was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Stiven Vega

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Millonarios

8 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.

In brief

80 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Andrés Llinás damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Player ratings

John Córdoba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Sebastián Ramírez: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millonarios have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of John Córdoba

“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.

Match

Atletico Nacional take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Stiven Vega is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Millonarios has been clear about where Stiven Vega stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

A step back for Rodrigo Ureña at Millonarios

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

79 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Daniel Ruiz

Successful dribbles: 57. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Llinás

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

John Córdoba has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rodrigo Ureña

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Ureña, and the manager let it.

Match

Envigado take the points off Millonarios

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Juan David Montaño out for 25 days

The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Juan David Montaño, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Jorge Di María faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jorge Di María after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

78 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Andrés Llinás out for 32 days

32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near John Córdoba

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Juan José Ramírez puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Daniel Ruiz has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Javier Burrai 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Millonarios

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Market

Millonarios promote Javier Palacios from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Javier Palacios has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Wilmar Ramirez joins the Millonarios first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wilmar Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

77 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Llinás

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Fabián Suárez Chalares what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fabián Suárez Chalares wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Squad

No place for Sebastián Navarro in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Millonarios are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Andrés Amaya 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 Millonarios, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

76 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Llinás

48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A move Sebastián Navarro would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sebastián Navarro is living that version at Millonarios, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Millonarios turn down Sport Huancayo for Jordan Ferrín

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

As if he never left: Sebastián Navarro returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Sebastián Navarro is a Millonarios player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Andrés Amaya has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Michael Krmenčík

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Krmenčík, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Andrés Amaya 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 Andrés Amaya trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

75 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Andrés Llinás damages knee ligaments — 58 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 58 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.

Market

Sérgio Mosquera turns Universitario Popayan down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Alexis Corona

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RB Leipzig have kept their man, and Millonarios go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Andrés Amaya is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Millonarios will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market

Juan Alberto Mosquera 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Edwin Caicedo what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Edwin Caicedo wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Pedro Bravo 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Market

Eyes on Jordan Ferrín again

The phone has started ringing about Jordan Ferrín again, and this time the name on the line is Sport Huancayo. Millonarios are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

74 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Llinás

66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jesús Ricardo Angulo

Millonarios asked and Toluca said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Luis Mena 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 Millonarios can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Squad

Luis Vásquez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Vásquez commits to Millonarios for another 3 years.

The dugout

Sebastián Valencia gets it from the manager

“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.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Luis Marimón’s exile

7 goals in 22 games at Llaneros — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Millonarios updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Juan José Ramírez’s exile

7 goals in 22 games at Llaneros — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Millonarios updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

73 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Andrés Llinás out for 75 days

75 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

Millonarios hand the job to Jorge Di María

“I have supported clubs like this one. I know what a bad Saturday feels like here.” The new man starts with nothing behind him and everything in front of him.

The dugout

Edinson Largacha says Millonarios went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

Millonarios rebuffed over Santiago González

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tigre have kept their man, and Millonarios go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Kevin De La Hoz puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The season belongs to Andrés Amaya

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Millonarios have had the benefit of it.

Squad

A move Cristian Santander would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Cristian Santander is living that version at Millonarios, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Luis Vásquez is a Millonarios player

The fee is $340.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Atletico Bucaramanga drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Millonarios get their man

The chase for Cristian Santander ended with $310.0K changing hands and Barranquilla out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

In brief

72 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrés Llinás

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Brayan Campáz puts it in writing

“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 Millonarios, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Luis Vásquez is a medical away from Millonarios

The deal with Atletico Bucaramanga is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Millonarios dugout

42 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Transfer targets

Timothy Fayulu turns down Millonarios

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sion keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Millonarios make their move for Cristian Santander

$310.0K on the table at Barranquilla. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Llinás what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Llinás wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Transfer targets

No deal for Juan Pablo Montoya at that price

Millonarios offered $150.0K; Leones 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.

In brief

71 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Andrés Llinás out for 89 days

89 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Danovis Banguero asks to leave Millonarios

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Laurenz Orgler

Millonarios asked and Rapid Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Millonarios count the cost of losing Juan Carlos Pereira

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Jorge Arias told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jorge Arias has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Millonarios.

Transfer targets

Millonarios ask about Antonio Casas

A loan enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Timothy Fayulu is in the works

Millonarios have made the call to Sion. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

70 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrés Llinás damages knee ligaments — 98 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Jordan Ferrín at Millonarios

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jordan Ferrín is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give John Córdoba what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. John Córdoba wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorge Arias was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

John Córdoba 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 Millonarios, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

69 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Valencia out for 68 days

68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Daniel Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ruiz wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

The dugout

John Córdoba 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.

Loan watch

Juan José Ramírez keeps scoring at Llaneros

22 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Millonarios keep their word to Sander Navarro

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

A door opens for Stiven Vega

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad

A wage question at Millonarios

Sebastián Ramírez 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.

In brief

68 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastián Valencia

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millonarios lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Jordan Ferrín signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jordan Ferrín and Millonarios agree another 4 years.

Squad

Daniel Ruiz 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Millonarios

Day 14 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Market

Cristian Graciano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Danovis Banguero

“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.

The dugout

Jordan Ferrín 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 Millonarios, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Luis Marimón

22 appearances at Llaneros and the goals keep coming. Millonarios are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

67 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Millonarios run out of patience with Miguel Rios

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Miguel Rios clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Squad

Sebastián Valencia damages knee ligaments — 84 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.

Boardroom

The Millonarios board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

The dugout

Andrés Amaya keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom

Gustavo Sanchez takes charge at Millonarios

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Bravo 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.

Boardroom

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In brief

66 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sebastián Valencia damages knee ligaments — 92 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 92 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Andrés Amaya wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Words at Millonarios training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Arias 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sebastián Valencia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Valencia, and the manager let it.

Squad

A step back for Rodrigo Contreras at Millonarios

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Market

A year gone for Jordan Ferrín

The loan was meant to give him football. 2 games and 0 goals later he is back at Millonarios no further forward, and everybody involved will explain why it was not their doing.

The dugout

Edinson Largacha 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 Edinson Largacha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Stiven Vega has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Stiven Vega has written the date down.

In brief

65 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Valencia out for 101 days

101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Rivillo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Rivillo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millonarios the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Stiven Palomeque signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stiven Palomeque and Millonarios agree another 4 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for David Contreras

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Contreras, and the manager let it.

In brief

64 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Valencia out for 108 days

108 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Juan Hurtado out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Juan Hurtado, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Andrés Llinás 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.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Luis Marimón

22 appearances at Llaneros and the goals keep coming. Millonarios are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout

Carlos Abeldaño 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 Carlos Abeldaño trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Sebastián Ramírez has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sebastián Ramírez has written the date down.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Jaine Barreiro

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Jaine Barreiro’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

63 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

John Córdoba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Valencia out for 115 days

115 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Millonarios finish in position 14

42 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrey Estupiñán yet — 8.09

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Llinás what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Llinás wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

John Córdoba sends Millonarios past Deportes Quindio

It finished 2‑0, and it was John Córdoba’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Millonarios.

The dugout

No hiding place for Edinson Largacha

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edinson Largacha, and the manager let it.

In brief

62 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

John Córdoba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The knee: Sebastián Valencia out for 123 days

123 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Millonarios lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Millonarios

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom

Millonarios spell it out for Miguel Rios

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Miguel Rios has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

Millonarios bow out of the cup

Atletico Nacional go through and Millonarios go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Javier Burrai stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The terraces

A cup embarrassment at Atletico Nacional follows Millonarios home

0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rodrigo Ureña and Millonarios agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

In brief

61 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Andrés Amaya scores twice — 8.31

Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Daniel Rivillo is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Millonarios is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Daniel Ruiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

John Córdoba has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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.

Match

Millonarios find a way past Aguilas Doradas

Aguilas Doradas made Millonarios work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

John Córdoba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sebastián Valencia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastián Valencia, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief

60 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

John Córdoba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Danovis Banguero keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Millonarios may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Vintage Andrey Estupiñán — 8.06

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.06, and nobody on the pitch better.

Match

Millonarios end the wait against America de Cali

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Daniel Ruiz what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Daniel Ruiz wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Pedro Bravo 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Millonarios count the cost of losing Juan Hurtado

53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Millonarios get the job done against America de Cali

A 2‑1 win over America de Cali, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

59 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Millonarios

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Squad

Jorge Arias out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Jorge Arias, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Once Caldas

Once Caldas left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Cristian Graciano has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Loan watch

Jordan Ferrín has seen enough of Melbourne Victory

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Millonarios, and 7 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sebastián Ramírez

“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.

In brief

58 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

7 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Millonarios

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Millonarios is running low.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro 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.

Market

Fabián Suárez Chalares has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Millonarios can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Bravo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Millonarios come up short against Santa Fe

Santa Fe left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Millonarios

5 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Wuilker Fariñez

“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.

In brief

57 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Millonarios

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Millonarios are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Pedro Bravo pops up at the right end — 7.80

7.80, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Daniel Rivillo has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Millonarios they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Millonarios

Jaine Barreiro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Millonarios may not be able to give Andrés Amaya what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Andrés Amaya wants continental football; whether Millonarios can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Rodrigo Ureña 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrey Estupiñán

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Jaine Barreiro gets it from the manager

“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.

Match

Millonarios and Cortulua take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

56 Edition

The Millonarios Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Millonarios's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Millonarios has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Daniel Ruiz runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jaine Barreiro 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 Millonarios this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Millonarios

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rodrigo Ureña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Stiven Vega gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Andrey Estupiñán gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Andrey Estupiñán is on it.

Match

Millonarios share the spoils with Deportes Tolima

A 1‑1 draw with Deportes Tolima leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Miguel Rios: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Juan José Ramírez

22 appearances at Llaneros and the goals keep coming. Millonarios are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief