DeAndre Wright

Right Forward - Chiapas
5 Jan 2031
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The Chiapas Herald

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Chiapas

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom

Chiapas put Hector Reyes on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Match

Chiapas win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Leon will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad

Tempers go at Chiapas

Alan Ramos 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.

Squad

Words at Chiapas training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Velázquez 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.

Match

Chiapas get the job done against Leon

A 2‑1 win over Leon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Alessandro Méndez

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jeremías Rodríguez Puch

Marked 8.63 — 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Alan Ramos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Ramos, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The San Jose Earthquakes Sentinel

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dave Romney

114 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. San Jose Earthquakes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Kaick is a San Jose Earthquakes player

The fee is $1.6M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. FC Dallas drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Thomás Rojas puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at San Jose Earthquakes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at San Jose Earthquakes

Hernán López Muñoz 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.

Market

Timo Werner moves on

New York Red Bulls pay $920.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Jonathan González 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.

In brief