Tomas Isla

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Marked for Tomas Isla

126 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market25 Dec 2028

Axel Loncharich asks to leave Iquique

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market25 Dec 2028

Germán Mansilla is on his way

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

Squad25 Dec 2028

Bryan Reyna 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 Iquique this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Diego Orellana 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.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Iquique keep their word to Vicente Concha

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Transfer targets25 Dec 2028

Iquique try to borrow Lucas Villagra

Magallanes 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.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Tomas Isla stays put

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

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Vicente Concha 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.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

A door opens for Joaquín Tapia

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

Back issues
115 Edition

The Iquique Gazette

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Oct 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tomas Isla

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Iquique lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Joaquín Pereyra signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joaquín Pereyra commits to Iquique for another 2 years.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Iquique

Vicente Concha 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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Iquique

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

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Diego Orellana knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Iquique, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Nicolás Zedan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Iquique will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief