Tigres' Five-Name List: The Rebuild That Begins After the Liguilla Miss

After missing the Liguilla, the Tigres board's 'continuity review' of five names is not a report — it is an open-door notice to the Liga MX market. Rodrigo Aguirre (striker), Cesar Araujo (midfielder), Rafael Guerrero (defender), Ozziel Herrera (winger) and Juan Pablo Vigon (midfielder) sit on the same list, but their problems are not the same kind. Some are recruitment failures, some are depth-chart demotions, some are simply floated for the press. Nowhere is the list officially announced — that condition is the biggest fact of all. When a board surfaces five names publicly without a single fee, age or contract length, read it as temperature-testing, not a sell decision. Tigres is a star-led, high-wage club; a Liguilla miss means lost prize money, and Liga MX's salary cap is tied to each club's own revenue — so sell first, buy second. That sequence will decide how cheaply Tigres sells and how expensively it buys in the coming window. The most marketable asset among the five is Ozziel Herrera, whose attacking age profile attracts both domestic and MLS suitors. The most specifically pressured is Rafael Guerrero, whose defensive performances have been questioned — far more concrete than generic 'expectations not met' language.