The Veracruz Courier
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Jorge Pineda goes
Liverpool paid $40.9M and Veracruz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match29 Aug 2026
Veracruz turn it around against Santos Laguna
Going 2 down does something to a side, and what it usually does is finish them. Not here. Veracruz rebuilt the afternoon goal by goal, and Santos Laguna had no answer to any of it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Veracruz say no — this time
The offer from Leon for Jorge Marquez 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Andres Lainez asks to leave Veracruz
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Veracruz leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Veracruz
Vitor Nardo 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Veracruz find a way past Santos Laguna
Santos Laguna made Veracruz work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market31 Aug 2026
Eduardo Herrera moves on
Sturm Graz pay $360.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Rodolfo Vazquez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Daniel Cervantes
- Squad Erik Sviatchenko has had enough of the bench
- Squad Zé Henrique signs on for more