The 2018–19 season started well for Gómez; in the club's first thirteen games, he scored eight goals.[3][4] In August 2019, he suffered a fracture to the metatarsal on his right foot, and was out of action until November of the same year.[5][6] In August 2020, following the postponement of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, Gómez confirmed that he still had a contract with Deportivo Armenio until 2021.[7]
Following Khalil Caraballo's long-term injury, Guillermo Brown signed Gómez on a contract until December 2022 to cover the striker's absence in June 2021.[8] Following one season with Guillermo Brown, in which he failed to score in fourteen appearances, he joined Primera C Metropolitana side Excursionistas.
In November 2022, Gómez signed a new two-year deal with Excursionistas, before the club announced he would be spending the 2023 season with Colombian Categoría Primera B side Real Cartagena.[9] He marked his debut with two goals and an assist, as Real Cartagena beat Patriotas Boyacá 3–2.[10] He continued his goal-scoring form, scoring eight goals in his first seventeen appearances, and began drawing the attention of first-division sides Atlético Junior and Once Caldas in May 2023.[11][12]
The following month, he broke Emanuel Molina's record as the top Argentine scorer for Real Cartagena with two goals against Deportes Quindío, taking his tally to ten.[13] On 10 June 2023, Gómez was left out of Real Cartagena's squad for their league game against Fortaleza C.E.I.F., with football journalist Diego Rueda stating that he had reached an agreement an unnamed top-flight club in Colombia, with Atlético Bucaramanga also being touted as an interested party.[14]
A day later, Gómez himself stated that he had agreed personal terms with Atlético Junior, and was waiting for the clubs to sign the appropriate paperwork.[15] However, despite these strong links, Gómez declared on 21 June that he would be staying with Real Cartagena, saying: "I want to stay, focus on the preseason to meet the goal of promotion".[16]
After finishing the 2023 season as second-top scorer to Jhonier Alfonso of Fortaleza C.E.I.F., Gómez was announced as a new signing for Categoría Primera A side Deportivo Pereira.[17] However, just a month into his contract with Deportivo, in which he was seen to have underperformed, having scored no goals, he was linked with a move back to Real Cartagena.[18]
^Mattar Cadena, Joshua (11 June 2023). "Santiago Gómez, mucho más cerca de Junior" [Santiago Gómez, much closer to Junior]. co.clarosports.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 August 2023.
