The Universidad Catolica Herald
Market27 Dec 2032
Terms done: Justo Giani is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Iquique waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Universidad Catolica is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market27 Dec 2032
Lucca asks to leave Universidad Catolica
“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.
Market27 Dec 2032
Elías Báez wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Universidad Catolica hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market27 Dec 2032
Simón Pinto has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universidad Catolica they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom27 Dec 2032
Claudio Nunez signs for Audax Italiano while still at Universidad Catolica
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Claudio Nunez has agreed terms with Audax Italiano for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad27 Dec 2032
Tempers go at Universidad Catolica
Elías Báez 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.
Squad27 Dec 2032
A row about effort at Universidad Catolica
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximiliano Gutiérrez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Dec 2032
Universidad Catolica are still strangers to each other
9 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.
Squad27 Dec 2032
Matías Segovia stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matías Segovia and Universidad Catolica agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout Maximiliano Gutiérrez gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Clemente Montes asks for a word with the manager
- The terraces The stands have heard the Vicente Poggi talk too