The Pumas UNAM Courier
Market17 May 2027
Santiago López is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pumas UNAM is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 May 2027
Sebastián Córdova 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 Pumas UNAM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
A row about effort at Pumas UNAM
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rubén Duarte was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 May 2027
Juninho has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pumas UNAM 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.
Match17 May 2027
Continental football is in reach for Pumas UNAM
66 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
Loan watch17 May 2027
Dorados cannot leave Ángel Rico out
26 starts and an average of 6.77. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager makes José Juan Macías a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Pumas UNAM. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout17 May 2027
Omar Mireles 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 Pumas UNAM, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market17 May 2027
The Pablo Bennevendo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pumas UNAM know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Sebastián Córdova
- Loan watch Ángel Rico's loan at Dorados nearly up
- Squad Andres Romo is fit again