Marked for Andrea Facchini
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces27 Aug 2029
The mood at Trento has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market27 Aug 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trento can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alessandro Rizza is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad27 Aug 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Trento
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market27 Aug 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alberto Rossetti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Aug 2029
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Edoardo Scalise is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Aug 2029
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuele Pavone has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words at Trento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giacomo Benedetti 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.
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Crisis
The terraces2 Jul 2029
The mood at Trento has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Pressure builds in the Trento boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Trento can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market2 Jul 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Trento can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Riccardo Fiamozzi and Trento agree another 2 years.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andrea Facchini is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad2 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jul 2029
At 27 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.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Trento sign 5 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
In brief
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Market
Pianese are about to pick up the phone
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Market
Experience through the door at Trento
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Boardroom
$1.7M taken back off the Trento table
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Crisis
Squad26 Feb 2029
Leonardo Santer damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.
Boardroom26 Feb 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Trento
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market26 Feb 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Andrea Facchini: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Trento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Trento
Sheriff Kassama 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.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Words at Trento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Capone 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.
Match24 Feb 2029
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Boardroom29 Jan 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Trento
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Trento is running low.
Market29 Jan 2029
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Trento, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Vitaly Borsuk: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Trento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Trento
Christian Capone 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.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Mattia Maffei 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Fossati, and the manager let it.
Match27 Jan 2029
It needed Elios Minaj to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Vicenza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market29 Jan 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Trento know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.