Liga MX draft day recap

Liga MX is the best league in the world for sheer entertainment value. While this is most often true because of the wild and often unpredictable play on the pitch, the bi-annual “draft” where players are bought, sold, and loaned between clubs in a day long orgy of transfers is often the height of frenzy. Yesterday was no different, as 79 players were moved (or in some cases kept out on loan) - and because that’s not bananas enough, Chiapas FC will not participate in the 2017-18 Ascenso MX because of outstanding debts to the FMF. We’ll get to that in a minute though.

79 players moving is almost impossible to keep up with, however I’ve put together a table with all of the moves below:

Among the bigger moves, Edson Puch goes from Necaxa to Pachuca, Miguel Ponce goes from Chivas to Necaxa, and Xolos lost Aviles Hurtado to Monterrey, Guido Rodriguez and Carlos Vargas to America, and Milton Caraglio to Atlas.

Perhaps the bigger story however is the recently relegated Chiapas FC will not be participating in the 2017-18 Ascenso MX season according to Enrique Bonilla, the Liga MX and Ascenso MX Executive President. The club will look to “place all of the players who are in the inventory of the club” in today’s round of deals, and this has lead to rampant speculation of the winding down of the club - which itself is a sort of second iteration of the original Jaguares Chiapas, which moved to Queretaro in 2013 after that club was wound down.