Ivan Pavlov

Central Defender - Dolomiti Bellunesi
19 Aug 2032
Thursday
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Marked for Ivan Pavlov

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The Dolomiti Bellunesi Sentinel

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Dolomiti Bellunesi

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

Market

Alex Nelini puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Edoardo Martinelli is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Dolomiti Bellunesi

Alberto Lattanzio 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.

The dugout

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Squad

A late step up for Ali Khalilov

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Words at Dolomiti Bellunesi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Villads Rutkjær 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

Dolomiti Bellunesi can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

The dugout

No hiding place for Isaac Abbott

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

In brief

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The Dolomiti Bellunesi Sentinel

28 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sergio Donati puts it in writing

“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 Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Flavio Cipriani turns down Dolomiti Bellunesi

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Fiorentina keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Patrick Enrici 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 Dolomiti Bellunesi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jeroen De Roon

Dolomiti Bellunesi asked and Latina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Matteo Saccani 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.

Boardroom

The Dolomiti Bellunesi debt reaches $15.5M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Lino Wernberg Hyppänen

“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.

Market

Vikintas Kazlauskas told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vikintas Kazlauskas has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Dolomiti Bellunesi.

Squad

No place for Ivan Pavlov in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Dolomiti Bellunesi 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