Leonel Calderón

Left Midfielder - Guadalajara U20
30 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonel Calderón

46 Edition

The Guadalajara Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nathan Steinwascher damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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

Kevin Castañeda has said yes to Chiapas

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Guadalajara have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Atlas come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Guadalajara did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Jesús Ricardo Angulo comes home

The shirt still fits. Jesús Ricardo Angulo is back at Guadalajara, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Transfer targets

No deal for Luís Esteves at that price

Guadalajara offered $3.8M; Atlas said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Daniel Aguirre puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Guadalajara, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Leonel Calderón is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Guadalajara rebuffed over Ignacio Rivero

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tijuana have kept their man, and Guadalajara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Guadalajara still without a manager

13 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

In brief