The Antofagasta Sentinel
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Antofagasta put Juan Riquelme on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The Antofagasta board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market7 Feb 2028
Fabián Manzano is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Antofagasta is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Antofagasta to lose Fabián Manzano for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Fabián Manzano has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Matías Gallegos 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 Antofagasta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Viggo Andersson gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Viggo Andersson has just signed for Antofagasta, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Matías Contreras falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market7 Feb 2028
Antofagasta sign Viggo Andersson, one for the future
Viggo Andersson is 20, and Antofagasta have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market7 Feb 2028
A long bet from Antofagasta on Sixten Floric
He is 18, and nobody at Antofagasta signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Squad Diego Rojas signs a new deal
- Boardroom Antofagasta pull $2.4M back off the table
- Market Antofagasta shop where it costs nothing