Marked for Uriel Montes
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Talleres have kept their man, and Tigres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Age has not caught Lucas Ocampos yet — 8.12
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.12 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tigres
Lucas Ocampos 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jesús Angulo 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
6 unbeaten for Tigres
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Tigres did not have in the autumn.
Match28 Aug 2027
A 2‑1 win over Dorados, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uriel Montes, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Steady
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market9 Aug 2027
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Fernando Gorriarán wants continental football; whether Tigres can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ozziel Herrera, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
7 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Honours even between Tigres and Toluca
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Santiago Sanchez was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Tigres dressing room was either.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Tigres will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Steady
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match31 Jul 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tigres scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Jesús Angulo 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Ocampos 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
A 1‑0 win over Chiapas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Rômulo takes the honours
Marked 7.87 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Tigres had the best player on the pitch.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marco Montes and Tigres agree another 4 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tigres lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 161 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Monterrey; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The deal with Racing Club is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Tigres
Leandro Paredes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Angulo 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tigres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market14 Jun 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonathan Jimenez has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Jun 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Angel Rodriguez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Angulo 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 dugout24 May 2027
“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.
The dugout24 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Osvaldo Rodríguez trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 May 2027
Joaquim linked with a move away
The name of Joaquim keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout24 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tigres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad24 May 2027
Uriel Montes is training like a man with a point to make
Nobody has promised him anything and he has not asked. The coaching staff have noticed, which at this stage of a season is the only thing that matters.
Match24 May 2027
A season winding down at Tigres
Position 12, 36 points, safe from one end and out of reach of the other. The last weeks are about next season now, and the team sheet has started saying so.
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Uneasy
Boardroom3 May 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Tigres
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Tigres is running low.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Tigres
Leandro Paredes 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.
Squad3 May 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Angulo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isac Galván and Tigres agree another 4 years.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Tigres, and 9 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout3 May 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market3 May 2027
The Jesús Angulo talk will not go away
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.
Boardroom3 May 2027
$5.0M taken back off the Tigres table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes Uriel Montes a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tigres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Jesús Angulo 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 dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Uriel Montes 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
Joaquim linked with a move away
The name of Joaquim keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Marco Farfan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tigres will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tigres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad26 Apr 2027
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
Match26 Apr 2027
A season winding down at Tigres
Position 12, 36 points, safe from one end and out of reach of the other. The last weeks are about next season now, and the team sheet has started saying so.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I did not go to FC Nordsjaelland to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tigres and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Uriel Montes knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Uriel Montes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market19 Apr 2027
The name of Diego Lainez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Juan Pablo Vigon is on it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Luis Alfonso Rodríguez has written the date down.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
10 starts now, an average of 6.68, and the team sheet at Cerro Largo has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager plants his flag on Jesús Angulo
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Jesús Angulo’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Fernando Araujo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tigres have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Jesús Angulo 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
The name of Fernando Gorriarán keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luis Alfonso Rodríguez is on it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes Uriel Montes a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tigres. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tigres may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Tigres
Leandro Paredes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Uriel Montes
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Alfonso Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Jesús Garza asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Joaquim story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Joaquim signs something — a contract at Tigres or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Marco Farfan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tigres will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
Juan Brunetta has left for Malmo FF in a $11.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Tigres sell a favourite for $11.1M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Juan Brunetta was one of the reasons people came, and $11.1M does not replace that by itself.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Tigres
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Tigres
Leandro Paredes 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luis Alfonso Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The team sheet said everything about Jesús Garza
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Jesús Garza.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Santiago Sanchez chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Market15 Feb 2027
The name of Fernando Gorriarán keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luis Alfonso Rodríguez is on it.
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Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
Pachuca 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 targets18 Jan 2027
$2.2M was the most the club would pay and Santos Laguna were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match16 Jan 2027
The run is over for Tigres
9 matches without defeat, and then Santos Laguna. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jesús Angulo 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Uriel Montes
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Tigres have gone to Defensor Sporting with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Fee done, terms next for Iker Fimbres
Tigres and Monterrey have settled on $1.5M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The offer went to Pachuca this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Match2 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Tigres
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Marcelo Flores again, and this time the name on the line is FC Nordsjaelland. Tigres are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market4 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Brunetta has his answer from Tigres; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Angulo 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uriel Montes, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
Pachuca left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
1 error, one goal, and a night in front of the same three seconds. He will see it tonight, tomorrow and probably in February, and everybody who has played knows exactly which frame he keeps stopping on.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured for Rômulo
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Tigres told Rômulo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jesús Garza is still paying for one afternoon at Tigres
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Market26 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tigres
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Tigres
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tigres can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Uriel Montes 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesús Angulo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Santiago Sanchez left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Tigres
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tigres are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tigres
Fernando Gorriarán 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Tigres
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Jesús Garza beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to César Araújo, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Santiago Sanchez left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Farfan 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 dugout12 Oct 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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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
Santos Laguna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernando Araujo, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luis Alfonso Rodríguez 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tigres are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Santiago Sanchez left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Uriel Montes knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Uriel Montes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
César Araújo dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Escamilla arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kevin Escamilla has, at Tigres, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Angulo 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 3‑1 win over Veracruz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Juan Brunetta was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.29. 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rodrigo Aguirre was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Santiago Sanchez on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Tigres
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$1.9M was the most the club would pay and Toluca were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jesús Angulo 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Araújo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Joaquim slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Joaquim is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Rômulo
A mark of 7.48, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Fernando Araujo named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Fernando Araujo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Santiago Sanchez was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Tigres dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Guadalajara, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market17 Aug 2026
Uriel Montes arrives at Tigres in a $4.8M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Tigres have paid $4.8M for Uriel Montes, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Guadalajara have kept their man, and Tigres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pumas UNAM 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tigres
Jesús Angulo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Tigres spend $4.8M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $4.8M for Uriel Montes, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquim 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Juan Brunetta scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Leon, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.