The Tigres Herald
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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 dugout3 Jul 2028
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.
Match3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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 targets3 Jul 2028
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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
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
- Market Tigres sell Jaziel Martínez for $2.0M
- Squad Fernando Tapia in a row with a teammate
- Transfer targets No deal for Léo Jardim at that price