Marked for Davide Di Russo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Jun 2027
Davide Di Russo damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Saad El Haddad: 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.” Pineto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Saad El Haddad is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Jun 2027
Davide Di Russo damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Pineto
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Pineto is running low.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Davide Giannini is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Jun 2027
Davide Di Russo damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miłosz Kurzydłowski is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Pineto
Filippo D'Andrea 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Niccolò Postiglione has left for Lecco in a $100.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pineto know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.