The Queretaro Sentinel
Squad9 Jul 2029
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.
Market9 Jul 2029
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.
Market9 Jul 2029
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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
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 targets9 Jul 2029
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 targets9 Jul 2029
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 dugout9 Jul 2029
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
- Market Paulo Victor linked with a move away
- The dugout A door opens for César González
- The dugout The manager comes out for Iker Benito