Luis Sandoval

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Luis Sandoval

47 Edition

The Morelia Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

René López puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Morelia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Diego Abella due for a Morelia medical

Everything agreed with Chiapas, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market

Ramón Pasquel is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Morelia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Morelia

Joaquín Mattalia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Real improvement from Luis Sandoval at Morelia

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Luis Sandoval is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Morelia baulk at the price for Sebastián Venegas

Pumas UNAM wanted more than $140.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A row about effort at Morelia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Uziel García was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Cayetano Bolzán

Morelia asked and Guadalajara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Édgar Games has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

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9 Edition

The Morelia Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Morelia

Joaquín Mattalia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Morelia refuse to lose to Toluca

A point taken on 90 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

The dugout

No hiding place for José Alonso Flores

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

Player ratings

Arturo Palma runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Morelia and Toluca take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Sebastian Pineda on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Pineda after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Rubén Del Campo does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

The dugout

Orlando Botello gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Orlando Botello is on it.

Looking ahead

Diego Antonio Lomelí faces his old club

Leon next, and one man in the Morelia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief