The Pontedera Courier
Market31 Aug 2026
Matteo Carlesi 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 The request is on a desk at Pontedera, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Andrea Bartoccioni
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pontedera have done the hard part with Renate, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Louis Buffon
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Salvatore Elia
Pontedera asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Pontedera against Vis Pesaro
0‑1 to Vis Pesaro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Pontedera
Davide Guglielmotti 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Domenico Fiorentino to a room that had heard them before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Thiago Lugano 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Andrea Caponi
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- The dugout Luca Piana left out for tactical reasons at Pontedera
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Philip Yeboah
- Squad Sergio Kalaj has had enough of the bench