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Uneasy
Squad9 Jun 2036
A fracture rules Magnus Warming out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trento will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Jun 2036
Words exchanged at Trento
Gennaro Ventura 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.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2036
Trento asked and Neuchâtel Xamax said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad9 Jun 2036
A row about effort at Trento
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erling Linnes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2036
A loan enquiry to Hajduk Split: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2036
Fiorentina 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 dugout9 Jun 2036
Bozhidar Penchev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Trento 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.
Boardroom9 Jun 2036
Trento can only buy what they sell
Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.
The dugout9 Jun 2036
The manager makes an example of Gift Dolly
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Jun 2036
A fracture rules Magnus Warming out for 123 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Trento will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Jun 2036
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Trento can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market2 Jun 2036
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market2 Jun 2036
“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 Trento, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout2 Jun 2036
Ventsi Dyakov: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Trento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Jun 2036
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Trento can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad2 Jun 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trento this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets2 Jun 2036
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Modena have kept their man, and Trento go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad2 Jun 2036
Lars Knuiman 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.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Nov 2035
A fracture rules Iovan Roganovich out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bari will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Nov 2035
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Iovan Roganovich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bari the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Nov 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Nov 2035
Cristiano Trifelli 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.
Squad19 Nov 2035
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout19 Nov 2035
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market19 Nov 2035
Lorenzo Nyarko is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bari has been clear about where Lorenzo Nyarko stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout19 Nov 2035
Bruno Leanza 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.
The dugout19 Nov 2035
Samuel Ogodo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Bari 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.