Agustín Moreno

Defensive Midfielder - Deportes La Serena
29 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Agustín Moreno

127 Edition

The Deportes La Serena Gazette

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Javier Rivera puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Deportes La Serena, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Paolo Dorini

Deportes La Serena and Unión San Felipe have settled on $520.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $770.0K sale of Nicolás Castagno

He is going to Universidad de Concepcion, the club has $770.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

The dugout

Nicolás Stefanelli frozen out at Deportes La Serena

This is not rotation. Nicolás Stefanelli has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Deportes La Serena is pretending otherwise.

Boardroom

Deportes La Serena go back to the board over Javier Calderón

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $270.0K — a club that wants Javier Calderón enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A move Agustín Moreno would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Agustín Moreno is living that version at Deportes La Serena, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Nicolás Castagno moves on

Universidad de Concepcion pay $770.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Words exchanged at Deportes La Serena

Nicolás Stefanelli 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ezequiel Naya

Deportes La Serena asked and Estudiantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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67 Edition

The Cobreloa Post

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Tomás Aránguiz keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Kevin Coronel 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 Cobreloa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Time is catching up with Misael Dávila

Everybody at Cobreloa saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

A row about effort at Cobreloa

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

The dugout

When it matters, Jonathan Rodríguez plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Vicente Conelli 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

66 Edition

The Cobreloa Post

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Agustín Moreno: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cobreloa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Cobreloa

Kevin Coronel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Cobreloa

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

Boardroom

Wages swallow 89% of the Cobreloa 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.

Squad

Marcelo Jorquera loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Marcelo Jorquera. Cobreloa will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

The dugout

Felipe Campos gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Felipe Campos is on it.

In brief