Matteo Giunta

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The Zagatala Courier

11 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Feb 2036

The knee: Ariel Barreiro out for 66 days

66 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zagatala lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad11 Feb 2036

Tempers go at Zagatala

Aleksa Paić 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.

Squad11 Feb 2036

Maksym Tlumak falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout11 Feb 2036

No hiding place for Angelo Gattermayer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Angelo Gattermayer, and the manager let it.

Boardroom11 Feb 2036

Zagatala cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Market11 Feb 2036

Still no ink between Zagatala and Angelo Gattermayer

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Zagatala, another week without a signature from Angelo Gattermayer.

Market11 Feb 2036

A stepping stone, not a home, for Matteo Giunta

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Zagatala were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

The dugout11 Feb 2036

Angelo Gattermayer gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Angelo Gattermayer is on it.

Squad11 Feb 2036

Emin Medvedev needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Zagatala know which stage they are at.

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438 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

18 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Match12 Dec 2034

Leeds United bow out of the cup

Fulham go through and Leeds United go home, 0‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces18 Dec 2034

A cup embarrassment at Fulham follows Leeds United home

0-3. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.

The dugout18 Dec 2034

Matteo Giunta keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leeds United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market18 Dec 2034

Only the photograph left for Killian Camélé

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Killian Camélé will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leeds United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad18 Dec 2034

A row about effort at Leeds United

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

The dugout18 Dec 2034

No hiding place for Ellis Simms

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ellis Simms, and the manager let it.

Squad18 Dec 2034

Words exchanged at Leeds United

Ivan Ivaschenko 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.

Match16 Dec 2034

Ellis Simms sends Leeds United past Luton Town

It finished 2‑0, and it was Ellis Simms’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leeds United.

Boardroom18 Dec 2034

Leeds United are $299.2M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

In brief

417 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

24 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Jul 2034

The knee: Hermann Tebily out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Leeds United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market24 Jul 2034

Hull City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Leeds United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad24 Jul 2034

Words exchanged at Leeds United

Nicolò Zaniolo 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.

Boardroom24 Jul 2034

Leeds United to lose Liam Ward for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Liam Ward has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Transfer targets24 Jul 2034

Door shut on Oliwier Zych

Leeds United asked and Cardiff City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Jul 2034

Too much change too quickly at Leeds United

10 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.

Transfer targets24 Jul 2034

Leeds United ask about Allan

A loan enquiry to Manchester City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad24 Jul 2034

Pieter van Maarschalkerwaard falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom24 Jul 2034

Leeds United bank $276.7K from an old deal

The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Sam Alker is somebody else's player now, and $276.7K has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.

In brief

412 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

19 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom19 Jun 2034

Pressure builds in the Leeds United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad19 Jun 2034

The knee: Liam Ward out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Leeds United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market19 Jun 2034

Lincoln City watching Jayden Bogle

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Leeds United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market19 Jun 2034

Pieter van Maarschalkerwaard has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom19 Jun 2034

Pieter van Maarschalkerwaard has agreed to leave Leeds United for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad19 Jun 2034

Louie Bradbury 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 Leeds United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets19 Jun 2034

Door shut on George Evans

Leeds United asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom19 Jun 2034

Leeds United are $300.7M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Squad19 Jun 2034

The formation has left Ellis Simms behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Leeds United will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief