The Palestino Chronicle
Squad3 Oct 2033
A fracture rules Francisco Marchant out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Palestino will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad3 Oct 2033
A knee injury of the worst kind for Claudio Suazo
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Palestino lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom3 Oct 2033
Palestino spell it out for Gary Davila
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Gary Davila has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom3 Oct 2033
Crisis meeting at Palestino
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Boardroom3 Oct 2033
Pressure builds in the Palestino boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad3 Oct 2033
Julián Fernández 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 Palestino this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Franco Lobos signs on for more
- Boardroom $2.4M taken back off the Palestino table