Marked for Robert Morales
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
64 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pumas UNAM lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ángel Rico is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Juan Dinenno 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Tigres left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Pumas UNAM
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastián Córdova was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Pumas UNAM will be judged on one thing only.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Pumas UNAM 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pumas UNAM, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The form table has caught Álvaro Angulo
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The dugout
Robert Morales asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pumas UNAM lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Keylor Navas
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Pumas UNAM right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Héctor Ramírez is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pumas UNAM keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Robert Morales 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Atlas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Juninho was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Pumas UNAM, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 15 in, 4 out at Pumas UNAM
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Juan Dinenno 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Pumas UNAM offered $150.0K; Puebla said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Vite commits to Pumas UNAM for another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sebastián Córdova 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.
The dugout7 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Pumas UNAM have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pablo Monroy 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 Pumas UNAM can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $147.9K — a club that wants Raul Castillo enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Puebla this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Pumas UNAM
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ralph Orquin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 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 Pumas UNAM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Pumas UNAM 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jesus Marquez was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Pumas UNAM dressing room was either.