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Crisis
Market4 Sep 2028
“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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match2 Sep 2028
4 matches without a win for Cesena
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cesena are no longer polite ones.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Iván Peralta, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Umar Abubakar
“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.
Match2 Sep 2028
A 3-3 draw with Sampdoria leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market4 Sep 2028
The name of Perr Schuurs keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cesena say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Cesena sign a deal worth $3.0M a year
Commercial news is the news nobody sings about and everything else is paid for with. The board will call it a partnership; the accountants will call it the difference between this squad and a smaller one.
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Crisis
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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.
Market7 Aug 2028
Charles Pickel 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 Cesena hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 65 days on the sidelines for Iván Peralta, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tommaso Arrigoni commits to Cesena for another 1 years.
Market7 Aug 2028
A conversation is coming this week. Cesena will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Uneasy
Market10 Jul 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Cesena have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Jul 2028
“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.
Market10 Jul 2028
Stefano Turati 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 Cesena hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The medical room confirms 99 days on the sidelines for Iván Peralta, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market10 Jul 2028
Lumezzane are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Cesena will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market10 Jul 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cesena know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Carlos Gallego
“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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Giovanni Zaro 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 Cesena, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Jun 2028
The name of Tommaso Berti keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cesena say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jun 2028
Charles Pickel: 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.” Cesena have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Jun 2028
The paperwork is done: Stefano Turati joins from Sassuolo in a deal worth $7.2M. Now comes the harder part.
Market12 Jun 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cesena is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Jun 2028
130 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Cesena still without a manager
42 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Squad12 Jun 2028
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Shpendi and Cesena agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market12 Jun 2028
Alberto Palladino has left for Modena in a $150.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market12 Jun 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cesena know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Jun 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roberto Ogunseye and Cesena agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“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.
Market5 Jun 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cesena know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The terraces5 Jun 2028
The spotlight tightens on Iván Peralta
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Perr Schuurs has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Perr Schuurs keeps the shirt for now, at Cesena's convenience rather than his own.
Market5 Jun 2028
Cesena have made Tommaso Arrigoni available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.