Ryan Doherty

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
25 May 2032
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ryan Doherty

215 Edition

The Ternana Herald

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Terms done: Karol Maria D'Onofrio is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Casertana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ternana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Ryan Doherty puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Match

Ternana make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The dugout

Andrew Graham says Ternana went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

César Falletti signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” César Falletti and Ternana agree another 2 years.

Squad

Real improvement from Domenico Pastore at Ternana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Domenico Pastore is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Ternana

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

Player ratings

Marco Garetto runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
214 Edition

The Ternana Herald

2 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 14 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Ternana until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Giacomo Gabbiani

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

Transfer targets

Ternana make their move for Matteo Carbone

$850.0K on the table at Bari. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

Nobody wins at Ternana

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Transfer targets

Briajan Gjyla due for a Ternana medical

Everything agreed with Union Brescia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Luca Scarlato will not be coming to Ternana

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Parma is saying, and nobody at Ternana is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

César Falletti stays put

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

Squad

Ryan Doherty is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

César Falletti 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

210 Edition

The Ternana Herald

5 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Giovanni Daffara turns down Ternana

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Parma keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

The dugout

Andrea Bernardi: 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.” Ternana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Giacomo Gabbiani

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Luigi Delibra

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luigi Delibra will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ternana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Real improvement from Ryan Doherty at Ternana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ryan Doherty is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Ternana

Federico Romeo 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Ternana

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

Transfer targets

Ternana try to borrow Andrea Favilli

Avellino 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 dugout

Maicol Giudice 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 Maicol Giudice is on it.

In brief