Marked for Matteo Martini
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Crisis
Squad13 Mar 2028
A fracture rules Andrei Anton out for 96 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Triestina will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market13 Mar 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Triestina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Idriz Voca 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristófer Jónsson and Triestina agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Simone Pieraccini 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.
Match11 Mar 2028
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Match25 Sep 2027
10 matches without a win for Triestina
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Triestina are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match22 Sep 2027
Triestina bow out of the cup
Arezzo go through and Triestina go home, 3‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Jamaal Mullin, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market27 Sep 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Triestina, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Triestina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match22 Sep 2027
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Triestina and Arezzo in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Fofin Turay 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
Martin Frese: 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.” Hellas Verona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Domagoj Bradarić 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Pro Patria pay $320.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market19 Jul 2027
Triestina pay $280.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antoine Bernede 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Triestina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Matteo Martini from Hellas Verona for $280.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Triestina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eetu Vertainen 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.