Benjamín Mellado

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Marked for Benjamín Mellado

21 Edition

The Huachipato Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets21 Dec 2026

An offer of $4.0M for Tomás O'Connor

Huachipato have gone to Gimnasia y Esgrima with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market21 Dec 2026

Huachipato say no — this time

The offer from Universidad Catolica for Benjamín Mellado was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market21 Dec 2026

Ezequiel Cañete wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad21 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Huachipato

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

Squad21 Dec 2026

The step up is real for Sebastián Mella

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Claudio Sepúlveda 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 targets21 Dec 2026

Door shut on Álvaro Busso

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

The dugout21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Luis Cabrera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luis Cabrera, and the manager let it.

Transfer targets21 Dec 2026

Huachipato ask about Francisco Gómez

A loan enquiry to Racing Club: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Huachipato Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Fee done, terms next for Lucas Soto

Huachipato and Colo-Colo have settled on $1.1M. 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.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

An offer of $700.0K for Diego Ulloa

Huachipato have gone to Colo-Colo with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Ezequiel Cañete 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 Huachipato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Harold Antiñirre stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Harold Antiñirre and Huachipato agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market14 Dec 2026

One of our own: Guillermo Riquelme joins the Huachipato first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guillermo Riquelme is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Transfer targets14 Dec 2026

Huachipato try to borrow Álvaro Busso

Vélez have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Nelson Guaiquil 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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

The formation has left Francisco Décima behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Huachipato will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

A door opens for Lionel Altamirano

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief