The Picerno Post
Squad2 Jul 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikolay Kipiani
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Picerno lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Jul 2029
Terms done: Léo Abreu is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Carrarese waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Picerno is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The terraces2 Jul 2029
The mood at Picerno 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
José Tamburelli breaks a bone — 41 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match2 Jul 2029
Picerno sink to position 15
28 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Picerno spell it out for Edoardo Rinaldi
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Edoardo Rinaldi has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The Picerno board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market2 Jul 2029
José Tamburelli puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Picerno, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
Léo Abreu frozen out at Picerno
This is not rotation. Léo Abreu has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Picerno is pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Market Dario Del Fabro has one foot out of the door
- Squad Fabio Mele gets the move he always wanted
- Squad A row about effort at Picerno