Kidani

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Santiago Morning
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Marked for Kidani

173 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Nov 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago

82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Santiago Morning lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom19 Nov 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Santiago Morning

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Match19 Nov 2029

Santiago Morning sink to position 15

21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market19 Nov 2029

Juan Bravo 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 Santiago Morning can pretend not to have heard.

Market19 Nov 2029

Only the photograph left for Rodrigo Roa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rodrigo Roa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Santiago Morning the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Nahuel González 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 Santiago Morning this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Lucas Mineiro 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.

The dugout19 Nov 2029

Nahuel González has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Nahuel González has written the date down.

Squad19 Nov 2029

Cristhofer Mesías wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Santiago Morning have no good answer.

In brief

  • The dugout Kidani knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout Juan Bravo keeps his manager's vote
Back issues
166 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market1 Oct 2029

Only the photograph left for Patricio Pizarro

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Patricio Pizarro will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Santiago Morning the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout1 Oct 2029

Kidani says Santiago Morning went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad1 Oct 2029

Diego Arias 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 Santiago Morning this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Oct 2029

A row about effort at Santiago Morning

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Mineiro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom1 Oct 2029

Wages swallow 172% of the Santiago Morning income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad1 Oct 2029

The decline has begun for Nelson Sanabria

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Santiago Morning is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

The dugout1 Oct 2029

Kevin Medel 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 dugout1 Oct 2029

Santiago Morning keep their word to Nahuel González

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout1 Oct 2029

Nahuel González asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

151 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market18 Jun 2029

Jorge López 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 Santiago Morning can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

Kidani keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Santiago Morning may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets18 Jun 2029

Ezequiel Morales due for a Santiago Morning medical

Everything agreed with Huachipato, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Words exchanged at Santiago Morning

Josué Ovalle 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.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Patricio Pizarro 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.

Transfer targets18 Jun 2029

Door shut on Andrés Fernández

Santiago Morning asked and Universidad de Concepcion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match16 Jun 2029

Santiago Morning come up short against Rangers de Talca

Rangers de Talca left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom18 Jun 2029

Santiago Morning cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Market18 Jun 2029

Mattheus Oliveira is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Santiago Morning has been clear about where Mattheus Oliveira stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

107 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Aug 2028

The knee: Sebastián Sosa out for 103 days

103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Santiago Morning lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match12 Aug 2028

Santiago Morning taken apart

0‑3 to Unión San Felipe, 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.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Matías Bórquez keeps Santiago Morning in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market14 Aug 2028

Juan Paulo Figueroa has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Santiago Morning they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

The game went through Josué Ovalle — 6.93

Marked 6.93 on 16 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Josué Ovalle 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 Santiago Morning this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Kidani gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kidani has just signed for Santiago Morning, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

Wages eat 250% of everything Santiago Morning earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

The manager makes an example of Tomás Maya

“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.

In brief