Marked for Danilo Treffiletti
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Crisis
Boardroom9 Jul 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Pergolettese
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market9 Jul 2029
The bid was some way short and Pergolettese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market9 Jul 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at Pergolettese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Jul 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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Doğan Gölpek and Pergolettese agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Jul 2029
Rémi Oudin 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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Crisis
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
A defender's afternoon for Rémi Oudin
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Rémi Oudin
8 goals and a season average of 7.20 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Valerio Brutto
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Davide Barosi 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 Davide Barosi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match24 Mar 2029
Point won or two lost for Pergolettese?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lumezzane? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market26 Mar 2029
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pergolettese know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Boardroom19 Mar 2029
Pressure builds in the Pergolettese boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market19 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
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.
Squad19 Mar 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Samuele Careccia 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Makarov, and the manager let it.
Match17 Mar 2029
It finished 1‑0, and it was Niccolò Corti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pergolettese.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
A defender's afternoon for Rémi Oudin
Defensive actions: 28. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Feb 2029
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.
Market26 Feb 2029
“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.
Player ratings26 Feb 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad26 Feb 2029
Rémi Oudin 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 ratings26 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Feb 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.
Market12 Feb 2029
“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.
Match10 Feb 2029
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Rémi Oudin 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 ratings12 Feb 2029
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 ratings12 Feb 2029
Marked 9.37 — 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 ratings12 Feb 2029
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
A defender's afternoon for Rémi Oudin
Defensive actions: 41. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market29 Jan 2029
The offer from Bologna for Rémi Oudin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Fabio Maistro 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 ratings29 Jan 2029
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match27 Jan 2029
A 1‑0 win over Dolomiti Bellunesi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings29 Jan 2029
Marked 8.00 — 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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Defences have started doubling up on Rémi Oudin
8 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market29 Jan 2029
Christian Akanji is 18, and Pergolettese have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Matteo Toscano has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Match2 Dec 2028
0‑3 against Alcione Milano, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market4 Dec 2028
“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 Pergolettese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Doğan Gölpek and Pergolettese agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch4 Dec 2028
“I did not go to Altamura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pergolettese and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“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.
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Nobody left the Pergolettese dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Player ratings4 Dec 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market20 Nov 2028
“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 Pergolettese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Rémi Oudin 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 Nov 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Fabio Maistro. 3‑2 against Union Brescia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
Marked 9.39 — 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 ratings20 Nov 2028
One of those days for Rémi Oudin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
Marked 8.48 — 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 ratings20 Nov 2028
Marked 8.26 — 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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
Davide Barosi lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danilo Treffiletti, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Oct 2028
There were 10 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 Oct 2028
“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.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
A defender's afternoon for Rémi Oudin
Defensive actions: 29. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
A defender's afternoon for Zaid Jaouhari
Defensive actions: 28. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Samuele Careccia 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 Oct 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match14 Oct 2028
Triestina made Pergolettese work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad16 Oct 2028
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Crisis
Match20 Sep 2028
The small margins put Pergolettese out
Out, 0‑1 to Mantova, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market25 Sep 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pergolettese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Rémi Oudin 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.
Match23 Sep 2028
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom25 Sep 2028
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Pergolettese now.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filippo Alinovi, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Davide Barosi 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 Davide Barosi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Upbeat
Market18 Sep 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pergolettese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Davide Barosi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pergolettese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
A defender's afternoon for Abdoul Bane
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Rémi Oudin 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 Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match16 Sep 2028
A 1‑0 win over Dolomiti Bellunesi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad18 Sep 2028
“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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Pressure builds in the Pergolettese boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market4 Sep 2028
Zaid Jaouhari hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pergolettese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Sep 2028
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Zaid Jaouhari
“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 ratings4 Sep 2028
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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Pergolettese have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market4 Sep 2028
The Rémi Oudin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rémi Oudin signs something — a contract at Pergolettese or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A mark of 5.35 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Market5 Jun 2028
Modena come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pergolettese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market5 Jun 2028
“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 Pergolettese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Samuele Careccia 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alberto Pala and Pergolettese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The numbers do not look good at Pergolettese
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
$858.7K taken back off the Pergolettese table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pergolettese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market22 May 2028
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
Rémi Oudin 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 Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filippo Alinovi, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Boardroom15 May 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Monza
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Monza is running low.
Market15 May 2028
“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 Monza, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 May 2028
Tempers go at Monza
Matteo Pessina 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.
Squad15 May 2028
Pietro Saio 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.
Squad15 May 2028
“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.
Market15 May 2028
Dany Mota linked with a move away
The name of Dany Mota keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Monza say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Market15 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pergolettese can pretend not to have heard.
Market15 May 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pergolettese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 May 2028
66 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad15 May 2028
Rémi Oudin 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 ratings15 May 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 May 2028
It finished 1‑0, and it was Niccolò Corti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pergolettese.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Marked 8.02 — 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.
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Crisis
Match8 Apr 2028
7 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Samuele Careccia 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Market10 Apr 2028
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Bozzo commits to Pergolettese for another 3 years.
Match8 Apr 2028
It needed Niccolò Corti to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Arzignano, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
The numbers do not look good at Pergolettese
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pergolettese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.