The Pineto Courier
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Pineto agree $690.0K for Cristian Cuzzarella
The clubs have shaken hands with Lazio; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Matteo Borsoi says Pineto went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Pineto
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pineto are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Pineto
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luca Schirone was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Pineto rebuffed over Simone Zanon
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Carrarese have kept their man, and Pineto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Massimo Pessina 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 Pineto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
12 new faces, and Pineto are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Pineto try to borrow Davide Stabile
Virtus Entella 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Matteo Borsoi takes the honours
Marked 7.43 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Pineto had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- Squad Iheb Dams wants to go home
- The dugout Interim Coach on the point
- The dugout No place in the plan for Alessandro Tonti