The Deportes Recoleta Chronicle
Squad14 Jan 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iarley Alayo
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Deportes Recoleta lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jan 2030
João Victor is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Deportes Recoleta is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom14 Jan 2030
João Victor has agreed to leave Deportes Recoleta for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Tempers go at Deportes Recoleta
João Victor was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2030
Too dear: Deportes Recoleta walk away from Camilo Salamanca
$41.0K was the most the club would pay and Curicó Unido were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Words at Deportes Recoleta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Palavecino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2030
Door shut on Hernán Taborda
Deportes Recoleta asked and Deportes Temuco said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Jan 2030
Daniel Jara steps up from the Deportes Recoleta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Jara has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market14 Jan 2030
One of our own: Mauricio Nunez joins the Deportes Recoleta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mauricio Nunez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Juan Valencia steps up from the Deportes Recoleta academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Francisco Monticelli
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Deportes Recoleta