The Potenza Chronicle
Squad5 Jun 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Balzano
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Potenza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Jun 2028
Bilal Erradi asks to leave Potenza
“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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A fracture rules Gianni Manfrin out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Potenza will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Door shut on Antonino La Gumina
Potenza asked and Südtirol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at Potenza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cornelius Staver 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The decline has begun for Gianni Manfrin
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Potenza is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
Antonis Siatounis is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Potenza try to borrow Nicola Bagnolini
Bologna 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 targets5 Jun 2028
Potenza ask about Justin Kumi
A loan enquiry to Sassuolo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Emanuele Schimmenti in it
- The dugout Lucas Felippe knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout No hiding place for Flavio Fuscaldi