The Monterrey Gazette
Squad25 Mar 2030
The knee: Stefan Medina out for 59 days
59 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Monterrey lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Orbelín Pineda 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 Monterrey this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Mar 2030
A move Romario Hernández 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. Romario Hernández is living that version at Monterrey, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Jesús Gallardo 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 dugout25 Mar 2030
When it matters, Óliver 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.
Market25 Mar 2030
Óliver linked with a move away
The name of Óliver keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Monterrey say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
The manager has not finished forgetting Esteban Andrada'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.
Market25 Mar 2030
Romario Hernández brings the grey hairs Monterrey lacked
At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
The manager makes Fidel Ambríz a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Monterrey. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Owen González asks for a word with the manager
- Market Monterrey put Dylan Torres up for sale
- Boardroom The Monterrey production line keeps running