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Edition
The Mantova Herald
23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Jul 2029
Ferdinando Ilardi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Mantova
Filippo Tripi 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.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A late step up for Antonio Fiori
At 26 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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Mantova training over how hard people work
- Market The Andrea Meroni talk will not go away
- Market The clock does Federico Artioli’s negotiating for him
- Market Mantova put Lorenzo Andrenacci up for sale