The Dorados Courier
Boardroom3 May 2027
Pressure builds in the Dorados boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The dugout3 May 2027
Michael Pérez says Dorados went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad3 May 2027
Héctor Moreno signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Héctor Moreno commits to Dorados for another 2 years.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Dorados
Alfonso Blanco 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.
Squad3 May 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Angel Lainez
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Angel Lainez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dorados have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout3 May 2027
No hiding place for Lucas Suárez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Suárez, and the manager let it.
Squad3 May 2027
David Osuna 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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$5.0M taken back off the Dorados table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
The dugout3 May 2027
Leonardo Vargas asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Market Carlos Galicia placed on the list
- The dugout A door opens for Jaime Álvarez