Sacha Bernard

Central Midfielder - Campobasso
25 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Sacha Bernard

187 Edition

The Campobasso Herald

25 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Campobasso

Emmanuele Salines and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Campobasso

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Words at Campobasso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Gargiulo 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 135% of everything Campobasso 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.

Market

Campobasso sign Peter Ulmer, one for the future

Peter Ulmer is 17, and Campobasso 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Campobasso

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

The improving has stalled for Sacha Bernard

He is 22 and he is exactly the player he was at the turn of the year. That is fine at twenty-eight and it is the beginning of a difficult conversation at his age.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Interim Coach chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Jonathan Reyes 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.

In brief

Back issues
186 Edition

The Campobasso Herald

18 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Campobasso let it slip despite Carmelo Limonelli

Carmelo Limonelli had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Livorno were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Market

Emanuel Pentimalli asks to leave Campobasso

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Campobasso

Emmanuele Salines 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.

Transfer targets

Campobasso baulk at the price for Simone Colombi

Padova wanted more than $17.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The dugout

Stefano Minelli 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Campobasso

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo Liviero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Carmelo Limonelli was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.10. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Sacha Bernard out for 21 days

The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Sacha Bernard, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Campobasso

Something was said to Emmanuele Salines and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

156 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

34 days out for Hamari Traoré after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paris FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Francesco Folino puts it in writing

“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 Paris FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Terms done: Yannis Clementia is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Concarneau waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paris FC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Paris FC say no — this time

The offer from FC Rouen for Mathys Tourraine 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Paris FC

Pierre Lees-Melou and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

No place for Pierre Lees-Melou in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Pierre Lees-Melou has his answer from Paris FC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Youssouf Ndayishimiye

Paris FC asked and Paris Saint-Germain said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Paris FC count the cost of losing Sacha Bernard

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

Squad

Paris FC are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief