Tomás Maya

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Process

Marked for Tomás Maya

25 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Diego Tapia breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Santiago Morning

Juan Pablo Abarzúa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrés Fernández

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrés Fernández, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Jorge Troncoso is still paying for one afternoon at Santiago Morning

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

When it matters, Sergio Riffo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad

Tomás Maya finally belongs at Santiago Morning

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The Santiago Morning Sentinel

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Santiago Morning

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Santiago Morning is running low.

Market

Trujillanos come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Santiago Morning did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Diego Oyarzún 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.

Squad

Tomás Maya signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomás Maya commits to Santiago Morning for another 3 years.

Transfer targets

San Marcos de Arica tell Santiago Morning: Bairon Monroy is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Matías Bórquez has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Santiago Morning 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.

Squad

Juan Pablo Marín is a square peg at Santiago Morning

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Boardroom

$1.5M taken back off the Santiago Morning table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

The dugout

Leandro Ruiz 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 Morning, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief