Benjamin Davila

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Santiago Morning
9 Nov 2030
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Marked for Benjamin Davila

211 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Aug 2030

136 days out for Matías Rodríguez after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Santiago Morning will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market12 Aug 2030

Santiago Carrero is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Santiago Morning is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom12 Aug 2030

Santiago Morning to lose Santiago Carrero for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santiago Carrero has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Heron 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.

Match10 Aug 2030

Antofagasta take the points off Santiago Morning

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match10 Aug 2030

Antofagasta end the Santiago Morning run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout12 Aug 2030

The manager makes an example of Jorge Carrasco

“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.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Santiago Morning are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad12 Aug 2030

Benjamin Davila signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benjamin Davila commits to Santiago Morning for another 4 years.

In brief

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171 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Santiago Morning spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market5 Nov 2029

Mateo Fernández 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Tempers go at Santiago Morning

Fernando Henrique 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.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

The owner puts $1.6M into Santiago Morning

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Gary Tello is slowing down

At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Boardroom5 Nov 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.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Wages swallow 128% 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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

A row about effort at Santiago Morning

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

The dugout5 Nov 2029

Fernando Henrique without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Fernando Henrique was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

In brief