Morelia

Mexican Liga MX
24 Aug 2026
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Process
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The Morelia Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

$350.0K — a new record at Morelia

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Zahid Muñoz sold

Toluca arrived with $510.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Market

Pachuca come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Morelia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Uziel García shuts the door

Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Brian Figueroa 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 Morelia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Alejandro Andrade

Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Jaziel Martínez 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.

Market

Jaziel Martínez told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jaziel Martínez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Morelia.

Match

No goals between Morelia and Cruz Azul

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Cruz Azul will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

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The Morelia Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Antonio Torres

There were 8 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.

Market

Zahid Muñoz attracts admirers

The name of Zahid Muñoz has come up in conversations Morelia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Uziel García 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 Morelia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Arturo Palma

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Morelia come up short against Monterrey

Monterrey left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of José Alonso Flores

“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.

Market

The clock runs on Brian Figueroa's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market

Morelia and José Alonso Flores are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Zahid Muñoz knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Morelia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

1 Edition

The Morelia Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Zahid Muñoz 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 Morelia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Arturo Palma

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Antonio Torres

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.

Squad

Uziel García signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Uziel García and Morelia agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Morelia

Brian Figueroa 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.

Match

Rubén Del Campo’s goal not enough for Morelia

Rubén Del Campo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Pumas UNAM, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Zahid Muñoz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zahid Muñoz, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Rubén Del Campo

Marked 8.14 — 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.

Market

Morelia and Antonio Torres are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief