Marked for Luis Romo
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Jan 2034
Pedro Cuiabá breaks a bone — 45 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Jan 2034
Frank Ruiz gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Frank Ruiz has just signed for Tigres, and for once the answer mattered.
Market9 Jan 2034
The Leones deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Juan Gómez reports back to Tigres with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market9 Jan 2034
As if he never left: Frank Ruiz returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Frank Ruiz is a Tigres player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market9 Jan 2034
A conversation is coming this week. Tigres will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad9 Jan 2034
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lautaro Guzmán was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Jan 2034
Words exchanged at Tigres
Pedro Cuiabá 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.
Market9 Jan 2034
“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 Lautaro Guzmán.
Boardroom9 Jan 2034
Wages swallow 86% of the Tigres income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
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The dugout
Lautaro Guzmán knocks on the manager’s door
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The dugout
Luis Romo gets it from the manager
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Match
Continental football is in reach for Tigres
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad15 Aug 2033
A fracture rules Oribe Moreno out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tigres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Aug 2033
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustavo Charrupi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad15 Aug 2033
Matías López 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Aug 2033
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Duván Viáfara, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Aug 2033
5 new faces, and Tigres are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market15 Aug 2033
“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 Hans Ibarra.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market27 Jun 2033
“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.
Match27 Jun 2033
Tigres finish in position 5
33 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings27 Jun 2033
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.51, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match25 Jun 2033
Nobody wants to play Tigres right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
The dugout27 Jun 2033
“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.
Match25 Jun 2033
Tigres get the job done against Bogota
A 3‑1 win over Bogota, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad27 Jun 2033
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Duván Viáfara 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.
Transfer targets27 Jun 2033
Tigres asked and Millonarios said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad27 Jun 2033
Words exchanged at Tigres
Matías López 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.
In brief
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The terraces
One of their own: Luis Romo
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Player ratings
Ninety minutes of Hans Ibarra at his very best
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Boardroom
Wages eat 122% of everything Tigres earn
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2032
A fracture rules Richard Duque out for 16 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tigres will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Cuiabá 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.
Squad18 Oct 2032
Tempers go at Tigres
Matías López 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.
Boardroom18 Oct 2032
Wages eat 153% of everything Tigres earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout18 Oct 2032
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Romero, and the manager let it.
The dugout18 Oct 2032
Sebastián Díaz has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tigres 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2032
Words exchanged at Tigres
Pedro Cuiabá 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.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Lusiel Gómez arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lusiel Gómez has, at Tigres, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad9 Aug 2032
A row about effort at Tigres
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Duván Viáfara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market9 Aug 2032
“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 Pedro Cuiabá.
The dugout9 Aug 2032
Yimy Gómez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tigres 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.
Squad9 Aug 2032
This league is too small for Vítor Manoel
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Tigres will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
The dugout9 Aug 2032
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Francisco Gerometta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Aug 2032
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Tigres could get for him.
Match9 Aug 2032
Tigres have something to play for
Position 5 on 37 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.