Tim Dost

Goalkeeper - Cruz Azul
11 Dec 2040
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Tim Dost

736 Edition

The Cruz Azul Gazette

3 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Luis Gómez damages knee ligaments — 82 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 82 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Erick Orta out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cruz Azul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

15 seasons of Omar Campos

596 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Cruz Azul know what they have.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Lucas Assadi yet — 8.24

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.24 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jegors Olijars

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jegors Olijars will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cruz Azul the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

The Pumas UNAM deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Nicolás Ramírez reports back to Cruz Azul with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Owen González 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 Cruz Azul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Cruz Azul do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

Lucas Assadi the difference as Cruz Azul beat Leon

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lucas Assadi. 2‑1 against Leon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
724 Edition

The Monterrey Gazette

11 Jun 2040
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Allen Rojas breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Monterrey refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 85 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Monterrey say no — this time

The offer from Queretaro for Diogo Guzmán was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Yurii-Volodymyr Hereta asks to leave Monterrey

“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

Tempers go at Monterrey

Zois Karargyris 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.

Boardroom

Juan David Cabezas has agreed to leave Monterrey for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words at Monterrey training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus Nascimento 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.

Market

Genoa expected to open talks for Tahiel Jiménez

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Monterrey will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Ruan Índio wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Monterrey know it.

In brief

672 Edition

The Monterrey Gazette

13 Jun 2039
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Pellegrino

112 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Monterrey lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Monterrey are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 80 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Monterrey spend $9.7M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $9.7M has been paid because Zois Karargyris is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad

Zois Karargyris gets the move he always wanted

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

Market

Jonathan Vaal asks to leave Monterrey

“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

Matheus Nascimento 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Monterrey

Sebastián Boselli 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.

The terraces

$9.7M for Zois Karargyris, and Monterrey supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Zois Karargyris from AEL Larisa for $9.7M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Market

Pachuca expected to open talks for Erick Sánchez

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Monterrey will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief