Marked for César Araújo
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 49. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Nahuel Guzmán decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match6 Jan 2027
Tigres march on in the cup
Toluca are out and Tigres go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Jesús Angulo 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Joaquim 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Tigres against Veracruz
0‑1 to Veracruz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jan 2027
César Araújo gets it from the manager
“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.
Boardroom11 Jan 2027
Nobody left the Tigres dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Tigres
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Jesús Angulo 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Tigres
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tigres can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquim 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Cruz Azul, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Atlas, and it could have been more.
Market28 Sep 2026
Juan Brunetta hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tigres can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Tigres make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tigres have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Nahuel Guzmán 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Tigres training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssef En-Nesyri 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ozziel Herrera was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.48. 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
Youssef En-Nesyri was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. 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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Rômulo
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Tigres hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jesús Angulo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Youssef En-Nesyri 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 unbeaten for Tigres
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Tigres did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Lainez named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Diego Lainez is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Sep 2026
It needed Youssef En-Nesyri to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Queretaro, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad7 Sep 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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Chiapas come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tigres did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Juan Pablo Vigon has come up in conversations Tigres were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jesús Angulo 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.
Squad24 Aug 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 Tigres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
César Araújo gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Diego Lainez
A mark of 7.78, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Diego Lainez to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Guadalajara, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Marcelo Flores keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tigres say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 40 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jesús Angulo commits to Tigres for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tigres
Jesús Angulo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tigres have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
A conversation is coming this week. Tigres will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Joaquim
Still no offer on the table, and Joaquim’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jesús Angulo 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Tigres and Toluca take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.