Nelson Suárez

Goalkeeper - Tigres
27 Aug 2028
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107 Edition

The Tigres Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Santiago Rátiva

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tigres lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Remember the name: Sebastián Mosquera

He is 21, he is averaging 7.05, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Loan watch14 Aug 2028

Ever Gómez counts the days

“I watch every Tigres game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Atletico Bucaramanga runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad14 Aug 2028

A falling-out at Tigres

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

The dugout14 Aug 2028

The manager makes an example of Mateo Parra

“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.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Juan Felipe Hincapié has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tigres will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad14 Aug 2028

No place for Juan Johao González in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tigres are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Juan Felipe Hincapié has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Juan Felipe Hincapié has written the date down.

Market14 Aug 2028

48 months and counting on Nelson Suárez

Still no offer on the table, and Nelson Suárez’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief

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104 Edition

The Tigres Post

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom24 Jul 2028

Deadline passes with 6 signed and 13 gone

That is the business done at Tigres until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market24 Jul 2028

So close: Santiago Rátiva’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Deportivo Pereira moved on, Santiago Rátiva reports back to Tigres, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Tigres

Nicolás Lara 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.

Transfer targets24 Jul 2028

Door shut on Tomás Ángel

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

Squad24 Jul 2028

No place for Christian Huérfano in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tigres are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Too much change too quickly at Tigres

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

The manager makes an example of Nelson Suárez

“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.

The dugout24 Jul 2028

The manager makes Juan Felipe Hincapié a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tigres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Somebody is after Christian Huérfano’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Christian Huérfano suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Tigres have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief