Words at Casa Pia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Sousa 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Casa Pia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nobody at Casa Pia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Nick Woltemade 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.
In brief
SquadWords at Newcastle United training over how hard people work
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Newcastle United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Nick Woltemade 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Guimarães 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.
Sean Neave, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69
A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 20 combined actions and a mark of 7.28, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Tommaso Orsini 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.
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.
Luca Paganini 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Vis Pesaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Pinheiro 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadAlan Pinheiro falls out with a teammate over standards
1‑4 against Sambenedettese, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Triestina will make the call about Francesco Nicastro this week. Vis Pesaro have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Newcastle United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Newcastle United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kahveh Zahiroleslam has just signed for Newcastle United, and for once the answer mattered.
Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Kahveh Zahiroleslam is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Joelinton. 1‑0 against Bournemouth, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The words a physio says slowly. 67 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Agil Mammadov is living that version at Newcastle United, and it tends to show in the first month.
Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Agil Mammadov has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joelinton 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joelinton 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.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tino Livramento, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Yoane Wissa was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Lokeren did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $13.0M for Simon Courtois, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Simon Courtois has just signed for Newcastle United, and for once the answer mattered.
Joelinton 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.
The phone has started ringing about Sean Neave again, and this time the name on the line is Rotherham United. Newcastle United are listening politely and promising nothing.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Brayson 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.