Marked for Manuel Llano
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ujpest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Noah Fenyő and Ujpest agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Muhamed Tijani 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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Crisis
Squad1 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Ujpest
Iuri Medeiros 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.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Ujpest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Piscitelli 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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Valerio Farcomeni is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ryan Andrews 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 Casertana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Casertana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shady Oukhadda 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.
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Steady
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ujpest may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Barnabás Bese out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ujpest will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Ujpest
Iuri Medeiros 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Ujpest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riccardo Piscitelli 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Matija Ljujić has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ujpest.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market9 Aug 2027
Etien Mulaj is 19, and Ujpest have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Match7 Aug 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Ferencvaros came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market9 Aug 2027
No fee and no drama: Manuel Llano has signed at Ujpest, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
No sign of nerves from Kevin Leone at 21 — 8.01
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kevin Leone did not need any: 8.01, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Shady Oukhadda 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Yayah Kallon 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces1 Feb 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Kevin Leone has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match30 Jan 2027
No time for Catania to settle
The goal that put Catania ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Casertana equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Squad1 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Ian
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ian, and the manager let it.
Match30 Jan 2027
It needed Kevin Leone to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Catania, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lee Young-Jun 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Casertana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shady Oukhadda 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Casertana.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Ian
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ian, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Casertana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Alcione Milano runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mauro Couto has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Casertana will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Casertana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 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 Casertana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Shady Oukhadda 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pietro Alessi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Armando De Santis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Karlo Butić 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Casertana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Rocchi 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
A conversation is coming this week. Casertana will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Shady Oukhadda and Casertana agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Karlo Butić 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 Casertana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Shady Oukhadda 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.