Marked for David Quintero
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match1 May 2028
Tigres are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad1 May 2028
17 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad1 May 2028
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 ratings1 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 May 2028
“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.
Squad1 May 2028
Mateo Parra 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad6 Mar 2028
Manuel Palacios damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match6 Mar 2028
Tigres are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match4 Mar 2028
Tigres make home a hard place to visit
14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aldo Montes commits to Tigres for another 4 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Mateo Parra 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Tigres and Leones cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Leones came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market6 Mar 2028
The clock runs on David Quintero's contract
10 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Jan 2028
Tigres up to position 3
35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Luciano Sokolic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Tempers go at Tigres
Aldo Montes 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 Jan 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Santiago Rátiva and Tigres agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Jan 2028
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“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.