Hannes Gamper

Striker - AFC Wimbledon
22 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Hannes Gamper

107 Edition

The AFC Wimbledon Herald

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Marcus Browne: 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.” AFC Wimbledon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

AFC Wimbledon bid $4.5M for Ugo Raghouber

The offer went to Burnley this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Hannes Gamper 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 AFC Wimbledon can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Alistair Smith delivers — 7.14

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Alistair Smith scored, was marked 7.14, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

A falling-out at AFC Wimbledon

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

Squad

Home is on Pedro Hourdebaigt'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; AFC Wimbledon are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets

AFC Wimbledon rebuffed over Cameron Congreve

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

Squad

Tom Iorpenda 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.

Squad

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Patrick Bauer

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. AFC Wimbledon will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief

Back issues
78 Edition

The AFC Wimbledon Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A hiding for AFC Wimbledon

Beaten 0‑3 by Swindon Town, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Tom Iorpenda 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 AFC Wimbledon, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Valletta come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Alfie Whiteman 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 AFC Wimbledon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

An offer of $64.0K for Charlie Wragg

AFC Wimbledon have gone to Walsall with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Plymouth Argyle tell AFC Wimbledon: Owen Oseni is not for sale

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for AFC Wimbledon against Port Vale

1‑2 to Port Vale, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Kieran Green 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AFC Wimbledon

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

In brief

46 Edition

The Südtirol Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Giorgio Colleoni agrees terms with Forli

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Südtirol people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Aleksandar Stanković turns down Südtirol

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

Squad

A move Alejandro Galván would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alejandro Galván is living that version at Südtirol, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout

Salvatore Molina 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.

Squad

Davide Veroli 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.

Loan watch

Gabriele Platto counts the days

“I watch every Südtirol game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Como runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Market

A long bet from Südtirol on Gonzalo Vega

He is 19, and nobody at Südtirol signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Gonzalo Vega 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 Südtirol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Alejandro Galván is a square peg at Südtirol

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.

In brief

35 Edition

The Südtirol Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Hannes Gamper is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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

Simone Davi 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.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Daniele Borra

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Carrarese in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

Market

The Simone Tronchin story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Simone Tronchin signs something — a contract at Südtirol or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Domen Črnigoj knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Südtirol, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Andrea Masiello has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andrea Masiello has written the date down.

Loan watch

Daniele Casiraghi keeps scoring at Ravenna

25 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Riccardo Tonin’s exile

3 goals in 10 games at Wycombe Wanderers — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Südtirol updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Looking ahead

Home comforts ahead for Südtirol

Carrarese, position 18, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.

In brief