Marked for Giancarlo Soprano
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad10 Jul 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sheriff Kassama is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market10 Jul 2028
Samuel Sackey has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Trento they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Trento
Nicola Dalmonte 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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Jacopo Manconi out for 79 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Benevento will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Feb 2028
6 matches without a win for Benevento
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Benevento are no longer polite ones.
Market21 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Antonio Prisco
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Antonio Prisco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Benevento the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Giancarlo Soprano has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Mattia Maita 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 Benevento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at Benevento training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Sernicola 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.
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Alessandro Burlandi has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Benevento have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francesco Salvemini, and the manager let it.
Loan watch21 Feb 2028
“I did not go to HJK to sit and watch. I want to come back to Benevento and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.