Massimo Turella

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ternana
5 Oct 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Massimo Turella

54 Edition

The Ternana Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Edgaras Dubickas is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Vicenza waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ternana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Ternana turn down Carrarese for Vladislav Nahrudnyy

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ternana

Marco Garetto 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Massimo Turella

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Federico Romeo has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

A row about effort at Ternana

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gianni Manfrin

“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

Mattia Proietti is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ternana has been clear about where Mattia Proietti stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Enrico Brignola 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 Enrico Brignola trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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48 Edition

The Ternana Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tommaso Vitali has said yes to Sambenedettese

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

Real improvement from Massimo Turella at Ternana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Massimo Turella is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for Francesco D'Alterio

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

Karol Maria D'Onofrio out for 49 days

The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Karol Maria D'Onofrio, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Edgaras Dubickas

“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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 89% of the Ternana income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

When it matters, Edgaras Dubickas plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Ternana put Edgaras Dubickas up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Edgaras Dubickas may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout

Stefano Pettinari has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Stefano Pettinari has written the date down.

In brief