The Magallanes Post
Squad10 Sep 2029
A fracture rules Cristopher Barrera out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Magallanes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Sep 2029
Every point is an argument now for Magallanes
Position 15 and 21 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market10 Sep 2029
Lautaro Espeche is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Magallanes is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A falling-out at Magallanes
Antonio Díaz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A row about effort at Magallanes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Diego Fernández was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Sep 2029
One of our own: Ivan Beausejour joins the Magallanes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Beausejour is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Sep 2029
Magallanes promote Daniel Isla from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Isla has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Sep 2029
One of our own: Ivan Bravo joins the Magallanes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Bravo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom10 Sep 2029
The borrowing at Magallanes reaches $33.2M
Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $33.2M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.
In brief
- Squad Guillermo Avello signs a new deal
- The dugout A promise honoured at Magallanes
- The dugout Cristopher Barrera has become a man the manager trusts