Davide Pavesi

Central Defender - Pergolettese
29 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Davide Pavesi

11 Edition

The Pergolettese Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Pergolettese count the cost of losing Luca Milesi

72 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

The step up is real for Davide Pavesi

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

The dugout

Zaid Jaouhari gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Looking ahead

Michael De Marchi goes back to face Virtus Verona

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Michael De Marchi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Pergolettese needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

The manager makes Niccolò Corti a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Pergolettese. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

Mattia Rossetti asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Pergolettese Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The step up is real for Davide Pavesi

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

Samuele Careccia was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

Pergolettese rebuffed over Cristian Cauz

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Empoli have kept their man, and Pergolettese go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gennaro Piccini was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Pergolettese dressing room was either.

The dugout

Jacopo Antolini dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Pergolettese draw a blank against Novara

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Novara defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

The dugout

Luca Milesi left out for tactical reasons at Pergolettese

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Squad

Mariano Arini speaks, and the room listens

“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Pergolettese was different afterwards.

Squad

Salvatore Dore finally belongs at Pergolettese

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief