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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
95 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Puebla lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Alonso Ramírez out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Puebla will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match10 Oct 2026
Queretaro left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Jose Salcedo joins the Puebla first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jose Salcedo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jesus Reyes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Alexis Araujo left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Match3 Oct 2026
No mercy from Puebla
Dorados will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Puebla were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.30 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mario Anaya is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Puebla settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Dorados spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑3 to Guadalajara, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Puebla
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Juan Gómez has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad28 Sep 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and Puebla 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad21 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 Puebla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Puebla against Leon
0‑2 to Leon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
José Pachuca 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Luis Gabriel Rey’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Puebla needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 38 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching. Places at Puebla are won quietly and lost loudly, and this one was won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Puebla. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luis Guardado is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Uriel Guardado has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Lucas Camilo 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Alexis Araujo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Puebla dressing room was either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Puebla man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Ignacio Maestro Puch was the best thing in any of them.
Match12 Sep 2026
Puebla and Toluca cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Toluca came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Leon in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Match5 Sep 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad7 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Puebla
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ignacio Maestro Puch was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.67. 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
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.
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Juan Gómez 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 Puebla can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Veracruz pay $2.4M, 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Deportivo Riestra have kept their man, and Puebla go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Morelia made Puebla work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Kevin Velasco was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Emiliano Gómez was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.02. 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Iker Moreno
“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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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Puebla's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Puebla has to find a result from somewhere.
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 Puebla this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Puebla can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Puebla asked and Libertad said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
Veracruz are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Puebla will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Puebla against Pachuca
0‑1 to Pachuca, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Alexis Araujo left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Club America, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 Aug 2026
Puebla say no — this time
The offer from Veracruz for José Pachuca 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: San Diego Football Club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Atlas wanted more than $140.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Los Angeles Football Club have kept their man, and Puebla go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Puebla 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Lukas Ramil Sauer is in the works
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Mateo González
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Orlando City is saying, and nobody at Puebla is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan Pablo Vargas commits to Puebla for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Puebla have gone to Atlas with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Puebla asked and Columbus Crew said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Erick Romo joins the Puebla first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Romo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luis Sanchez has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Guillermo Salcedo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 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 Puebla, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” José Pachuca and Puebla agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Puebla
Ignacio Maestro Puch 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 targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gimnasia La Plata have kept their man, and Puebla go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Cruz Azul, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Puebla has picked up the phone to José Pachuca
61 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Puebla
11 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.