Marked for Noham Hamdaoua
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Nov 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Monopoli is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad11 Nov 2030
Cristian Battocchio 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.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
A performance of 8.96 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match9 Nov 2030
A 1‑0 win over Trapani, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad11 Nov 2030
“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.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Loan watch11 Nov 2030
“I watch every Monopoli game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pianese runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Upbeat
Market11 Nov 2030
“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 The request is on a desk at Pianese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Nov 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pianese is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Nov 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Matteo Colombo
12 goals and a season average of 7.57 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad11 Nov 2030
Francesco Chesti 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.
Boardroom11 Nov 2030
Pianese counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Pianese now.
Match9 Nov 2030
Campobasso made Pianese work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
A performance of 8.81 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
A performance of 8.67 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Nov 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad4 Nov 2030
A one-man rearguard from Thomas Galli
There were 9 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.
Match30 Oct 2030
The cup run ends for Pianese
0‑4 against AC Milan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market4 Nov 2030
“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 Pianese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Nov 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Matteo Colombo
11 goals and a season average of 7.51 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad4 Nov 2030
Francesco Proietto 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.
Match2 Nov 2030
Pianese get the job done against Carpi
A 3‑2 win over Carpi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings4 Nov 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings4 Nov 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.96, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings4 Nov 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Market14 Oct 2030
Andrea Corbari has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monopoli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Oct 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monopoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Oct 2030
1‑2 to Sorrento, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Marked 8.53 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch14 Oct 2030
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Monopoli, and 6 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Oct 2030
“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.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Shots: 12, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Market14 Oct 2030
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Emanuele Scipioni’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market23 Sep 2030
“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 Pianese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Francesco Chesti 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.
Match21 Sep 2030
Pianese get the job done against Bra
A 2‑1 win over Bra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Marked 8.91 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad23 Sep 2030
The manager makes an example of Afonso Sambú
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market23 Sep 2030
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings23 Sep 2030
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Sep 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Sep 2030
A one-man rearguard from Thomas Galli
There were 7 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.
Market16 Sep 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market16 Sep 2030
Only the photograph left for Luca Rossini
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luca Rossini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pianese the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Sep 2030
Francesco Proietto 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.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.58, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings16 Sep 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Sep 2030
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Monopoli is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Battocchio commits to Monopoli for another 2 years.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Lorenzo Andrenacci 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.
Player ratings9 Sep 2030
Marked 9.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad9 Sep 2030
The manager makes an example of Philip Yeboah
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad9 Sep 2030
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Kirill Saraev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
Wages eat 102% of everything Monopoli earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Loan watch9 Sep 2030
“I watch every Monopoli game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pianese runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match7 Sep 2030
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Crisis
Match31 Aug 2030
11 matches without a win for Pianese
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Pianese are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Sep 2030
There were 7 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.
Market2 Sep 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Sep 2030
Francesco Proietto 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.
Match31 Aug 2030
A bad afternoon for Pianese against Perugia
1‑3 to Perugia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad2 Sep 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noham Hamdaoua, and the manager let it.
Player ratings2 Sep 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market2 Sep 2030
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad2 Sep 2030
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Market12 Aug 2030
Lorenzo Bordo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monopoli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Cristian Battocchio 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.
Squad12 Aug 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Clementi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Aug 2030
Wages eat 106% of everything Monopoli earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Loan watch12 Aug 2030
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Monopoli, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Aug 2030
Aiham Dahche knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aiham Dahche trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Boardroom5 Aug 2030
Bruno Riva has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Pianese can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market5 Aug 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Aug 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francesco Proietto and Pianese agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Aug 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pianese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Aug 2030
The name of Jakob Schragl has come up in conversations Pianese were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market5 Aug 2030
The name of Francesco Chesti keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Market15 Jul 2030
Only the photograph left for Lorenzo Bordo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Bordo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Monopoli the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Jul 2030
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Monopoli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Jul 2030
Freddi Greco 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.
Boardroom15 Jul 2030
115% of the income goes out in wages at Monopoli
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Loan watch15 Jul 2030
“I watch every Monopoli game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pianese runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Jul 2030
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lorenzo Andrenacci trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Market17 Jun 2030
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Francesco Chesti 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.
Boardroom17 Jun 2030
95% of the income goes out in wages at Pianese
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad17 Jun 2030
Allef 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.
Squad17 Jun 2030
This league is too small for Noham Hamdaoua
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Pianese will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Jun 2030
The name of Lorenzo Masetti keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Boardroom3 Jun 2030
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market3 Jun 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad3 Jun 2030
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Alberto Solís, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Freddi Greco 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.
Market3 Jun 2030
The phone has started ringing about Noham Hamdaoua again, and this time the name on the line is Pontedera. Monopoli are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Jun 2030
The award goes to Giuseppe Positano, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
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Crisis
Match18 May 2030
The wait goes on for Monopoli
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market20 May 2030
Matías Melo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monopoli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings20 May 2030
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 May 2030
Cristian Battocchio 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.
Match18 May 2030
Catania left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad20 May 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Andrenacci, and the manager let it.
Boardroom20 May 2030
Wages eat 100% of everything Monopoli earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad20 May 2030
5 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings20 May 2030
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Monopoli lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Feb 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad11 Feb 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monopoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Feb 2030
Three points for Monopoli, 1‑0 the final word against Picerno in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings11 Feb 2030
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad11 Feb 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simone Calvano, and the manager let it.
Loan watch11 Feb 2030
“I watch every Monopoli game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Potenza runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
Pressure builds in the Monopoli boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market4 Feb 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Cristian Battocchio and Monopoli agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Freddi Greco 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.
Player ratings4 Feb 2030
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Feb 2030
The phone has started ringing about Noham Hamdaoua again, and this time the name on the line is Sambenedettese. Monopoli are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Defences have started doubling up on Alberto Solís
7 goals and a season average of 7.41 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match2 Feb 2030
Altamura left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match19 Jan 2030
8 matches without a win for Monopoli
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Monopoli are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Cristian Battocchio 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.
Match19 Jan 2030
2‑3 to Salernitana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Jan 2030
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Jan 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edoardo Antoni, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Jan 2030
5 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market21 Jan 2030
Everyone has stopped pretending: Livorno will make the call about Noham Hamdaoua this week. Monopoli have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Player ratings21 Jan 2030
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market21 Jan 2030
The Freddi Greco talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Monopoli know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Jan 2030
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market7 Jan 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
The scrutiny sharpens at Monopoli
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Monopoli is running low.
Match5 Jan 2030
No end in sight to Monopoli's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Monopoli has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Freddi Greco 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.
Player ratings7 Jan 2030
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.97, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 Jan 2030
7 goals and a season average of 7.43. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad7 Jan 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Andrenacci, and the manager let it.
Market7 Jan 2030
Add another name to the list: Triestina have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Noham Hamdaoua. The answer from Monopoli has not changed — yet.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Jan 2029
There were 7 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Aurélio Buta 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 Monopoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Marked 8.84 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Philip Yeboah, and the manager let it.
Match13 Jan 2029
It needed Emanuele Scipioni to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Salernitana, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market15 Jan 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Aurélio Buta’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings15 Jan 2029
Successful dribbles: 8. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market15 Jan 2029
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Gioele Castiglione leaves Monopoli the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.