Marked for Eduardo Miranda
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Leandro Navarro and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Santiago Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristóbal Cáceres is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Marcos Camarda knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marcos Camarda trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 2026
Marcos Camarda has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Santiago Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Santiago Wanderers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Pedro Navarro 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.
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Uneasy
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Camilo Astroza: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Santiago Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Santiago Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristóbal Cáceres is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad26 Oct 2026
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Luis Margas gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market26 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Santiago Wanderers money.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
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 Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristóbal Cáceres was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marcos Camarda 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erick Diaz is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Diego Opazo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pedro Navarro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Diego Opazo: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Santiago Wanderers will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ricardo Parra knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ricardo Parra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Santiago Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Santiago Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristóbal Cáceres is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ricardo Parra, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Santiago Wanderers than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leandro Navarro 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcos Camarda, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
13 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Diego Opazo 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 Santiago Wanderers, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market28 Sep 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Santiago Wanderers could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Marcos Camarda has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Santiago Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Cristopher Medina 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cristóbal Cáceres was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Cristóbal Cáceres has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Diego Opazo makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.