Marked for David Vujević
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
0‑1 to Arezzo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fabio Andrea Ruggeri commits to Carrarese for another 5 years.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Esteves 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Alfonso Grasso after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Gonçalo Esteves
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Carrarese lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Fabio Abiuso knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Carrarese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sampdoria in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matthias Braunöder and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julián Illanes 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Südtirol next, and one man in the Carrarese dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Jacopo Martini 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 Jacopo Martini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
David Vujević has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Carrarese will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Carrarese. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Carrarese's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Carrarese has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Catanzaro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Carrarese
David Vujević 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Gonçalo Esteves 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
89% of the income goes out in wages at Carrarese
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Jacopo Martini
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A Carrarese teenager takes the young player award
Tommaso Rubino is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gabriele Parlanti is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Carrarese
Nikola Sekulov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Carrarese
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gonçalo Esteves was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicola Ravaglia, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nicolás Schiavi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Carrarese needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Carrarese. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Carrarese know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Triumph
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Sassuolo, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at PAOK is saying, and nobody at Carrarese is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and Carrarese go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nicholas Bonfanti. 1‑0 against Mantova, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad31 Aug 2026
David Vujević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gonçalo Esteves 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Carrarese are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.