The Toluca Courier
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
$310.0K settles it between the clubs for Pablo López
Guadalajara have accepted the money. What Toluca do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market14 Jul 2031
Kilian Patrick 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 The request is on a desk at Toluca, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Tempers go at Toluca
Pável Pérez 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.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Words at Toluca training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Morales 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.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Real improvement from Leonel Calderón at Toluca
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leonel Calderón is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Edgar Martínez has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
Door shut on Hubert Charuży
Toluca asked and Benfica said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Jul 2031
Carlos Carrillo attracts admirers
The name of Carlos Carrillo has come up in conversations Toluca were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
A loan move for Alexandre Tverdohlebov is in the works
Toluca have made the call to Farense. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Nicolás Castro plays
- The dugout No hiding place for David Shrem
- Market Nicolás Castro linked with a move away