The Leon Sentinel
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Rodrigo López says Leon 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.
Market24 Apr 2028
Valentín Gauthier is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Leon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Leon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ismael Díaz was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Apr 2028
Valentín Gauthier wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A falling-out at Leon
Ángel Estrada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
When it matters, Nicolás Vallejo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Juan José Guevara
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Santiago Colombatto asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Loan watch24 Apr 2028
Emi Rodriguez has made Chiapas’s shirt his own
27 starts now, an average of 6.87, and the team sheet at Chiapas has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
In brief
- Squad Good reports on Iván Rodríguez
- Squad Efrain Ramirez is out on the grass again
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Sebastián Santos