The Queretaro Sentinel
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Queretaro
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.
Match6 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted Queretaro
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Queretaro can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Paulo Victor 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Hedgardo Marín
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Rubén Arellano 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 Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Bernardo Parra 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Queretaro draw a blank against Puebla
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Puebla defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market8 Feb 2027
Talks stall between Queretaro and César González
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market8 Feb 2027
Claudio Robles leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Claudio Robles leaves Queretaro the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Gerardo Gil in it
- Market The window shut and Juan Robles is still in the building