Marked for Brian Gutiérrez
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
6 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Roberto Alvarado 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Guadalajara
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Guadalajara can tell you which week it ends in.
Market5 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Érick Gutiérrez wants continental football; whether Guadalajara can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Pachuca, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Guadalajara heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Richard Ledezma was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Guadalajara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Gutiérrez 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.89 on the card, and the Guadalajara support went home talking about one name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Omar Govea
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Monterrey leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Guadalajara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Brian Gutiérrez
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Guadalajara are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
Guadalajara win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 96th minute. Tigres will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Hugo Camberos goes
Werder Bremen paid $2.4M and Guadalajara took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Roberto Alvarado 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ángel Sepúlveda 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tigres made Guadalajara work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.