Luis Herrera

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22 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Luis Herrera

53 Edition

The Deportivo Municipal Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Deportivo Municipal boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Deportivo Municipal put Andre Guerrero on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportivo Municipal

Alejandro Duarte was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Deportivo Municipal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erick Rossi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Brandon Carroll deal

Deportivo Municipal ran out of time with Universitario. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

Alexis Torres signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexis Torres and Deportivo Municipal agree another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Josué Guzmán

“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.

Squad

Deportivo Municipal take the armband off Luis Herrera

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

Market

The clock runs on Alexis Torres's contract

37 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Deportivo Municipal Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Deportivo Municipal's wait for a win

24 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Deportivo Municipal has to find a result from somewhere.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Deportivo Municipal boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Deportivo Municipal spell it out for Andre Guerrero

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Andre Guerrero has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

The season ends: position 12 for Deportivo Municipal

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 8 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market

Gianfranco Lucero hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Deportivo Municipal can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Jesús Castillo is a medical away from Deportivo Municipal

The deal with Alianza Lima is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Deportivo Municipal bid $250.0K for Fabrisio Mesías

The offer went to Alianza Lima this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Deportivo Municipal

Alejandro Duarte was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Luis Herrera signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Herrera commits to Deportivo Municipal for another 3 years.

In brief

40 Edition

The Deportivo Municipal Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Deportivo Municipal

15 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.

The terraces

The mood at Deportivo Municipal has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

The dugout

Edson Espinoza: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Deportivo Municipal have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportivo Municipal

Alejandro Duarte 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

José Cotrina stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” José Cotrina and Deportivo Municipal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Deportivo Municipal

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Luis Herrera

7.42, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Deportivo Municipal had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Mathías Panduro

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mathías Panduro has come out of that comparison in the side, and Deportivo Municipal have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

No hiding place for Moisés Velásquez

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

In brief