The Campobasso Herald
Squad25 Feb 2030
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.
Match23 Feb 2030
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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
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.
Boardroom25 Feb 2030
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.
Market25 Feb 2030
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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
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 dugout25 Feb 2030
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 dugout25 Feb 2030
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
- Player ratings Samuele Spalluto was unplayable
- Match No goals between Campobasso and Vicenza
- Market Alessandro Galeandro linked with a move away