Alexis Coman

Central Midfielder - Pescara
22 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Alexis Coman

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The Pescara Sentinel

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Pescara

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Leonardo Cardilli damages knee ligaments — 120 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 120 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

7 matches without a goal for Pescara

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

Alexis Coman asks to leave Pescara

“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.

The dugout

Alexis Coman says Pescara went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Gvidas Gineitis wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Pescara

Antonino Gallo 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.

Squad

Nazareno Solís wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Pescara know it.

Squad

Words at Pescara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davide Faraoni 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.

In brief

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The Pescara Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Real improvement from Sebastiano Desplanches at Pescara

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sebastiano Desplanches is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Pescara

Giacomo Olzer 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.

Match

Pescara come up short against Venezia

Venezia left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Roberto Inglese

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Words at Pescara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lamine Fanne 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Pescara dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Gabriele Cipriani answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Player ratings

Michele D'Ausilio beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

No place for Alexis Coman in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pescara are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief