The Tigres Post
The dugout1 Nov 2027
José Mejía frozen out at Tigres
This is not rotation. José Mejía has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tigres is pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at Tigres
Andrés Cuadros and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market1 Nov 2027
Still no ink between Tigres and Jorge Rivaldo
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tigres, another week without a signature from Jorge Rivaldo.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Tigres counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Tigres now.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Aldair Simanca 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.
Market1 Nov 2027
The shop window has Juan Felipe Hincapié in it
Tigres have let the market know Juan Felipe Hincapié can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Kevin Mosquera knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kevin Mosquera trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager plants his flag on Jeisson Castro
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Jeisson Castro’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
One-to-one work for Jeisson Castro
A programme of his own, away from the group, aimed at one thing the staff think is holding him back. Most improvement happens like this and none of it makes the paper.
In brief
- Match Mid-table, and Tigres know it
- Squad Daniel Duque is fit again