The Cruz Azul Gazette
Market4 Jan 2027
Cruz Azul turn down Monterrey for Agustín Palavecino
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market4 Jan 2027
Not going: Luka Romero stays at Cruz Azul
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Cerro Porteno had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gonzalo Piovi honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Cruz Azul had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Match2 Jan 2027
Nobody wins at Cruz Azul
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market4 Jan 2027
Omar Campos wants more than Cruz Azul are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Cristopher Benítez
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Andrés Gudiño 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Cruz Azul
Gabriel Fernández and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match2 Jan 2027
Cruz Azul get the job done against Morelia
A 2‑0 win over Morelia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Match Cruz Azul settle it inside twenty minutes
- Player ratings José Paradela in the eights
- The dugout A promise honoured at Cruz Azul