Marked for Bryan González
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match5 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Guadalajara
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match7 Dec 2026
Guadalajara are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market7 Dec 2026
Renato Tapia wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Guadalajara hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Match5 Dec 2026
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Brian Gutiérrez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Dorados, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Miguel Ángel Tapias 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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Player ratings
Luis Romo was immovable
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Squad
Eliás Montiel named in the team of the month
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The dugout
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Guadalajara did not have in the autumn.
Squad23 Nov 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Renato Tapia 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 Guadalajara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Guadalajara
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Leon were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ricardo Marín’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Guadalajara.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
The neighbours are next for Guadalajara
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Club America on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.81 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Guadalajara had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Guadalajara
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Guadalajara are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Guadalajara do not lose
9 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Richard Ledezma 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Guadalajara make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jesus Montes was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Guadalajara dressing room was either.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market9 Nov 2026
Luis Romo linked with a move away
The name of Luis Romo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Guadalajara say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Gutiérrez
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Guadalajara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Hugo Camberos is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Richard Ledezma and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Guadalajara
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Chicharito
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jesus Montes after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alan Pulido
“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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
32 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Guadalajara lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Latorre is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jonathan Pérez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernando González, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Guadalajara told Kevin Castañeda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
Luis Romo linked with a move away
The name of Luis Romo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Guadalajara say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Pachuca in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Guadalajara may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Renato Tapia 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jesus Montes was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Guadalajara dressing room was either.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Guadalajara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Brian Gutiérrez. 3‑1 against Tijuana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Bryan González was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.35. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Chicharito
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Óscar Whalley
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jesus Montes on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Richard Ledezma and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Diego Rosales is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
Cruz Azul made Guadalajara work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonathan Pérez has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad21 Sep 2026
7 new faces, and Guadalajara 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Jesus Montes kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Efraín Álvarez 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.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Luis Romo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Guadalajara, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santos Laguna have kept their man, and Guadalajara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Veracruz would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Kevin Castañeda
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Monterrey scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Guadalajara had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Brian Gutiérrez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Monterrey, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jesus Montes after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Upbeat
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Tigres for Richard Ledezma 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Al Wasl did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $8.2M for Renato Tapia, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.10 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Richard Ledezma 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Hugo Camberos again, and this time the name on the line is Santos Laguna. Guadalajara are listening politely and promising nothing.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
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: Renato Tapia from Al Wasl for $8.2M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.