The Leon Sentinel
Squad15 Jun 2037
Juan Pablo Domínguez breaks a bone — 81 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Jun 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Pedro González
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Jun 2037
Santos Laguna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Leon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market15 Jun 2037
Molik Khan 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.
Squad15 Jun 2037
A move Luis Gamboa 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. Luis Gamboa is living that version at Leon, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad15 Jun 2037
Tempers go at Leon
Sebastián Santos 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Leon beat the market to Bryan Gamboa from Cruz Azul
- Market Leon and Bernardo Parra are talking past each other
- Market Tijuana expected to open talks for José Luis Martín
- Boardroom Leon keep producing them