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Steady
The terraces27 Sep 2027
The mood at Carrarese has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match22 Sep 2027
Carrarese bow out of the cup
Pro Vercelli go through and Carrarese go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market27 Sep 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Match25 Sep 2027
Fabio Abiuso wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Fabio Abiuso found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Pineto went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad27 Sep 2027
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match25 Sep 2027
A 1‑0 win over Pineto, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 7.99 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Carrarese had the best player on the pitch.
Loan watch27 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Avellino to sit and watch. I want to come back to Carrarese and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Squad27 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Carrarese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 2027
Fabio Abiuso hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Carrarese can pretend not to have heard.
Match11 Sep 2027
7 matches without a win for Carrarese
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Carrarese are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Federico Accornero commits to Carrarese for another 4 years.
Market13 Sep 2027
Add another name to the list: Juve Stabia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Stefano Mazzini. The answer from Carrarese has not changed — yet.
Market13 Sep 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Romano Fiorentino is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sandro Guerra has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Carrarese training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Andrea Ruggeri 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Carrarese can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
Carrarese say no — this time
The offer from Radomlje for Mattia Finotto 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Nicolás Schiavi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Filippo Oliana 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Stade Nyonnais 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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Franco Saccone, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market26 Jul 2027
Carrarese have let the market know Filippo Melegoni can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Matthias Braunöder keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Carrarese say nothing, which says plenty.