The Veracruz Courier
Squad11 Sep 2028
Luis Ramirez in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Veracruz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Veracruz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillermo Fernández 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.
Match9 Sep 2028
Tigres take the points off Veracruz
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Alan Mendoza 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
9 new faces, and Veracruz 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
The Luis Ramirez question follows Veracruz around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luis Ramirez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Nobody could get near Jose Lozano
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market11 Sep 2028
Window shut, Juan Sanchez still here
Veracruz spent the window trying to move Juan Sanchez on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
Market11 Sep 2028
Christian Castillo placed on the list
Veracruz have made Christian Castillo available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Market Jonathan Alvarez leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Veracruz production line keeps running