Javier Herrera

Left Midfielder - Tigres U18
3 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Javier Herrera

101 Edition

The Tigres Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

67 days out for Fernando Tapia after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tigres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Javier Herrera damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Market

Not going: Xavier Biscayzacú stays at Tigres

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Pumas UNAM had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

The dugout

Jesús Angulo says Tigres went back on their word

“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.

Match

Tigres up to position 2

68 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Luís Esteves arrives at Tigres in a $7.5M 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 $7.5M for Luís Esteves, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets

Tigres rebuffed over Álvaro Fidalgo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Betis have kept their man, and Tigres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Luís Esteves gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luís Esteves has just signed for Tigres, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Paulinho wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Tigres hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The Tigres Herald

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

77 days out for Fernando Tapia after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tigres will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Javier Herrera damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Market

Pablo Bennevendo agrees terms with Dorados

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Tigres people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Monterrey tell Tigres: Gilberto Mora is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Business is business: Joaquim goes

Santos paid $13.4M and Tigres took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Kevin Palacios is a Tigres player

The fee is $4.7M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Santos Laguna drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

The terraces

A $13.4M sale, and a town that did not want it

Joaquim has gone, the accounts have $13.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Vladimir Loroña asks to leave Tigres

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tigres

Fernando Tapia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

  • Transfer targets No deal for Kevin Palacios at that price
  • Squad Jesús Angulo falls out with a teammate over standards
  • The terraces The town asked, and Tigres paid $4.7M