The Pro Vercelli Post
Market16 Dec 2030
Bruno Costa 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 Pro Vercelli can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom16 Dec 2030
Pietro Anfossi has agreed to leave Pro Vercelli for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Pietro Passador 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 Pro Vercelli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Dean Huiberts 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.
The dugout16 Dec 2030
Davide Fiorentino 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 dugout16 Dec 2030
Lorenzo Cancila asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market16 Dec 2030
The Dean Huiberts talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pro Vercelli know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom16 Dec 2030
The Pro Vercelli academy earns its keep
53 graduates, from a department now rated 9 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
Market16 Dec 2030
The clock does Marcelo Marques’s negotiating for him
5 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Pro Vercelli could ask drops and the wages Marcelo Marques can ask rise.
In brief
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Pro Vercelli
- The dugout Mattia Rutigliano keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Patryk Mackiewicz is not doing himself any favours