Erick Aguilar

Right Back - Queretaro
29 Dec 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Erick Aguilar

154 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rolando Flores damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Erick Aguilar asks to leave Queretaro

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Iker Benito wants more than Queretaro 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.

Squad

Diego Reyes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Reyes and Queretaro agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Real improvement from Luis Valenzuela at Queretaro

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

Squad

A late step up for Carlo Adriano

At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets

Queretaro ask about Patrick Ouotro

A loan enquiry to Tondela: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Kristian Lonebu is in the works

Queretaro have made the call to Molde. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Edison Gruezo knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Edison Gruezo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
115 Edition

The Queretaro Sentinel

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Hedgardo Marín keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Queretaro may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Carlos Villanueva has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Queretaro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Queretaro

Victor Olatunji 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

A move Erick Aguilar would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Erick Aguilar is living that version at Queretaro, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Lucas Abascia signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lucas Abascia and Queretaro agree another 2 years.

Player ratings

Iker Benito runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Edison Gruezo

“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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Jhojan Julio

A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Honours even between Queretaro and Puebla

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief