Marcelo

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Marked for Marcelo

93 Edition

The Guadalajara Post

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 May 2028

Roberto Alvarado 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 Guadalajara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 May 2028

Marcelo stays put

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

Squad8 May 2028

Brian Gutiérrez 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

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91 Edition

The Guadalajara Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Apr 2028

Roberto Alvarado 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 Guadalajara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Words at Guadalajara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bryan González 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.

Squad24 Apr 2028

No hiding place for Marcelo

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

Squad24 Apr 2028

Roberto Alvarado has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Guadalajara will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market24 Apr 2028

The Luis Romo question follows Guadalajara around

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

Loan watch24 Apr 2028

Everardo López first choice at Atletico Bucaramanga

14 starts and a season average of 6.60. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

In brief