Marked for Daniel Reyes
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Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad7 Dec 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Dec 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Tigres heard it as anything else.
Market7 Dec 2026
Joaquim has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Tigres can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Tigres
Alan Franco and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Gorriarán 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Pachuca made Tigres work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nahuel Guzmán, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Back issues
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tigres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Home is on Rômulo's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tigres are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Joaquim knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tigres, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Tigres take on the side everybody is chasing
Club America arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tigres know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Tigres
Daniel Reyes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Gorriarán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Rômulo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rômulo commits to Tigres for another 4 years.
Match12 Sep 2026
Queretaro made Tigres work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Juan Brunetta was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Eduardo Herrera could afford to be generous.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tigres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 15 in, 4 out at Tigres
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Tigres heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Fernando Gorriarán 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Toluca have kept their man, and Tigres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marcelo Flores falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Tigres 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Carrera, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Juan Brunetta’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Match22 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Tigres
A 1‑4 beating by Guadalajara was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tigres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Las Palmas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tigres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$1.1M settles it between the clubs for Roberto Sanchez
Veracruz have accepted the money. What Tigres do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Tigres asked and Guadalajara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tigres
Alan Franco and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernando Gorriarán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tigres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Daniel Reyes gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tigres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Marcelo Flores took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Tigres tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tigres pay Veracruz $4.8M for a proper upgrade
Veracruz did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $4.8M for Daniel Reyes, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hillerød come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tigres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Jorge Berlanga joins from Pachuca in a deal worth $1.0M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jaziel Martínez gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jaziel Martínez has just signed for Tigres, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Jaziel Martínez joins from Morelia in a deal worth $260.0K. Now comes the harder part.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Tigres
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The terraces
Tigres spend $4.8M on the signing the town wanted
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Player ratings
Marcelo Flores was on a different afternoon to everybody else
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Daniel Reyes goes
Tigres paid $4.8M and Veracruz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Carlos Rodriguez has left for Guadalajara in a $2.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Veracruz
Victor Peixoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Raul Sanchez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match15 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns Veracruz a point
Minute 85, against Queretaro, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Queretaro leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.95 on the card, and the Veracruz support went home talking about one name.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
What a way to start for Renato Cunha — 7.50
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.50 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.64 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Angel Vega has come up in conversations Veracruz were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Daniel Reyes 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Veracruz may not be able to give Rafinha what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Rafinha wants continental football; whether Veracruz can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Javier Marquez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.