Leonardo Betti

Central Defender - Free Agent
21 Mar 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonardo Betti

239 Edition

The Ternana Herald

24 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Denis Franchi

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout

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Market

Leonardo Betti 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 The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Alex Mancini is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ternana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ternana

César Falletti 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.

Squad

Felipe Dettler arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Felipe Dettler has, at Ternana, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A row about effort at Ternana

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Pagliari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Marco Garetto has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ternana will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Player ratings

Marco Garetto runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Daan Verhulst
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Match Ternana and Ascoli cancel each other out
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206 Edition

The Ternana Herald

8 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maicol Giudice 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 Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

24 days out for Samuele Tupone after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Ternana turn down Pro Patria for Alessandro Torri

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Fabrizio Alastra will not be coming to Ternana

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Altamura is saying, and nobody at Ternana is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

Cremonese tell Ternana: Giacomo Gabbiani is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Luigi Delibra has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ternana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Jordan Longhi due for a Ternana medical

Everything agreed with St. Gallen, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

César Falletti in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marco Pagliari 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.

In brief