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325 Edition

The Union Brescia Gazette

18 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Oct 2032

The knee: Davide Balestrero out for 47 days

47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Union Brescia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match16 Oct 2032

5 matches without a win for Union Brescia

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Union Brescia are no longer polite ones.

The dugout18 Oct 2032

Casper Roelfsema: 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.” Union Brescia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match16 Oct 2032

A bad afternoon for Union Brescia against Ospitaletto

1‑2 to Ospitaletto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad18 Oct 2032

Words exchanged at Union Brescia

Arneth González and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout18 Oct 2032

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout18 Oct 2032

Julián Folini knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Julián Folini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead18 Oct 2032

Alberto Rizzo goes back to face Cittadella

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Alberto Rizzo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Union Brescia needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market18 Oct 2032

The Andrea Rizzo Pinna talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Union Brescia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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324 Edition

The Union Brescia Gazette

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Oct 2032

The knee: Davide Balestrero out for 54 days

54 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Union Brescia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match9 Oct 2032

4 matches without a win for Union Brescia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Union Brescia are no longer polite ones.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Words exchanged at Union Brescia

Andrea Rizzo Pinna and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom11 Oct 2032

The numbers do not look good at Union Brescia

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Match9 Oct 2032

Pro Vercelli take the points off Union Brescia

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad11 Oct 2032

A row about effort at Union Brescia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alberto Rizzo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

Prince Cissé gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market11 Oct 2032

The Jacopo Pellegrini question follows Union Brescia around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jacopo Pellegrini’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

311 Edition

The Union Brescia Gazette

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Jul 2032

The knee: Davide Balestrero out for 148 days

148 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Union Brescia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Home is on Abdesslam Hannane's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Union Brescia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Tiziano Tedesco 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.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Abdesslam Hannane wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Union Brescia now know that too.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2032

Door shut on Andrea Di Palma

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

Transfer targets12 Jul 2032

Union Brescia try to borrow Alberto Montanari

Juventus have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2032

A loan move for Bas Depay is in the works

Union Brescia have made the call to Persib. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market12 Jul 2032

The Jacopo Pellegrini story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jacopo Pellegrini signs something — a contract at Union Brescia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout12 Jul 2032

Davide Balestrero gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Davide Balestrero is on it.

In brief