The Leon Sentinel
Market1 Mar 2027
Édgar Guerra asks to leave Leon
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Fernando Beltrán wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Leon hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Leon
Fernando Beltrán 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Leon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Pablo Domínguez 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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
No place for Juan Pablo Domínguez on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Leon pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Ismael Díaz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Mar 2027
6 new faces, and Leon are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Bryan Colula
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Romeo Padrón wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Leon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- The dugout Gerardo Lainez on the point
- The dugout José David Ramírez dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Sebastián Santos