Daniil Eremenko

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Casarano
6 Dec 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniil Eremenko

175 Edition

The Casarano Courier

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Casarano's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Casarano has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Mario Mercadante stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mario Mercadante and Casarano agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Casarano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vito Leonetti 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.

Squad

Home is on Aziz Okaka's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Casarano are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Words exchanged at Casarano

Daniil Eremenko 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.

The dugout

Mateus Farias: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Federico D'Angelo

“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.

The dugout

Manuel Gatti 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 Manuel Gatti trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Jerry Orozco

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Casarano told Jerry Orozco something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

Back issues
159 Edition

The Casarano Courier

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Casarano

Flavio Di Dio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Casarano training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pietro Ciotti 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.

Transfer targets

Casarano rebuffed over Agustín Zabaleta

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cesena have kept their man, and Casarano go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Giacomo Cavallini

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

Squad

Aziz Okaka wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Casarano can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

Casarano try to borrow Dario Salvatore

AC Milan have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Marco Ferilli linked with a move away

The name of Marco Ferilli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Casarano say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Nicolás Muñoz has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Casarano will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

A door opens for Vito Leonetti

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief