Liga MX Week 3: Guadalajara teams down in dumps

News and notes from across Liga MX

Team Mexico veteran Marco Fabián is poised to return to Liga MX, but not with any of the teams he had been linked to. Over the summer, oddsmakers were balancing bets against a reunion with the Chivas, his boyhood club, and Cruz Azul where spent a year on loan. Instead, the 31-year-old midfielder is deep in talks with FC Juárez. The Guadalajara native left Mexico in December 2015 to join Eintracht Frankfurt, then spent 2019 with Philadelphia Union in MLS before joining Qatari club Al-Sadd a few weeks before the pandemic halted the season over there.

The feel-good environment in the América camp took a bit of a blow on Wednesday when a player agent aired some accusations about the club’s activities in Paraguay. Miguel González Zelada claims to know about financial funny business involving another agent favored by the club, shady contracts and inflated commissions.

The first-place Aguilas have three Paraguayan players on their roster although new arrival Sergio Díaz was acquired from Real Madrid on a loan deal. Over the past 10 years, América has signed eight Paraguayan players. One of those players is stud defender Bruno Valdez who González Zelada represented. The agent now says the Mexico City club convinced Valdez to leave him, stiffing him out of a commission.

It’s an interesting story featuring the murky world of player agents and Mexican soccer teams, but it’s little more than a sideshow since nothing will come of it.