Marked for Raffaele Panariello
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Crisis
Squad1 Sep 2036
A fracture rules Alexander Prass out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hellas Verona will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Sep 2036
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Sep 2036
A career in one shirt: Amin Sarr
12 seasons and 503 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
The dugout1 Sep 2036
“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.
Boardroom1 Sep 2036
Hellas Verona close the window on a squad of their own making
25 in and 17 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market1 Sep 2036
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hellas Verona heard it as anything else.
Market1 Sep 2036
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hellas Verona they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Sep 2036
Mario Perlingieri 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 targets1 Sep 2036
Hellas Verona asked and AlbinoLeffe said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Aug 2036
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market4 Aug 2036
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom4 Aug 2036
The Hellas Verona board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market4 Aug 2036
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Giana Erminio waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets4 Aug 2036
The offer went to Cosenza 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.
Market4 Aug 2036
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hellas Verona they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets4 Aug 2036
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Juventus is saying, and nobody at Hellas Verona is enjoying the guessing.
Squad4 Aug 2036
Tian Mačak 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.
Squad4 Aug 2036
Juan Gauto 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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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Jul 2036
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market7 Jul 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Jul 2036
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Market7 Jul 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raffaele Panariello will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2036
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AS Roma is saying, and nobody at Hellas Verona is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Jul 2036
Mario Perlingieri 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.
Market7 Jul 2036
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hellas Verona heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Jul 2036
Demian Rea gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Demian Rea has just signed for Hellas Verona, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Jul 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juan Gauto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
The terraces9 Jun 2036
Supporters organise against the Hellas Verona board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market9 Jun 2036
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hellas Verona have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2036
The clubs have shaken hands with Frosinone; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets9 Jun 2036
$2.3M on the table at Juventus. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market9 Jun 2036
Lyan 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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Market9 Jun 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raffaele Panariello will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Jun 2036
Mario Perlingieri 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.
Squad9 Jun 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommaso Cecotti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market9 Jun 2036
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Giovanni van der Wijst has his answer from Hellas Verona; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Squad19 May 2036
6 saves: Leo Román was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market19 May 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cesare Montanari will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 May 2036
Mario Perlingieri 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.
The dugout19 May 2036
This is not rotation. Sandi Lovrić has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending otherwise.
Squad19 May 2036
Tommaso Cecotti 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.
Market19 May 2036
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout19 May 2036
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Interim Coach was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Hellas Verona dressing room was either.
The dugout19 May 2036
Riad Šuta 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.
Market19 May 2036
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Amin Sarr’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
The terraces12 May 2036
The mood at Hellas Verona 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.
Market12 May 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 May 2036
Mario Perlingieri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 May 2036
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Prass 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.
Squad12 May 2036
500 appearances for Amin Sarr
500 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings12 May 2036
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout12 May 2036
“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.
Squad12 May 2036
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Hellas Verona can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match10 May 2036
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Boardroom28 Apr 2036
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Hellas Verona
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match26 Apr 2036
Modena will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑2, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Hellas Verona were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings28 Apr 2036
A brace, and Tommaso Berti takes the afternoon — 8.33
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tommaso Berti provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market28 Apr 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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Apr 2036
Tian Mačak 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.
Market28 Apr 2036
Only the photograph left for Rémy Guérin
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rémy Guérin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match26 Apr 2036
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Hellas Verona and Modena in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad28 Apr 2036
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommaso Cecotti 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.
The dugout28 Apr 2036
Leo Román 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.
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Uneasy
The terraces14 Apr 2036
Anger at Hellas Verona spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Player ratings14 Apr 2036
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.38 for the rest of it.
Market14 Apr 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Tommaso Berti 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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Prass 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.
Match12 Apr 2036
It finished 2‑1, and it was Enrico Giannini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hellas Verona.
Player ratings14 Apr 2036
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
The manager makes an example of Enrico Giannini
“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.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hellas Verona, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Squad24 Mar 2036
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Verona lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 Mar 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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Mar 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cesare Montanari will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Mario Perlingieri 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.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
This is not rotation. Sandi Lovrić has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Mar 2036
The decline has begun for Amin Sarr
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Hellas Verona is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommaso Cecotti 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.
Match22 Mar 2036
0‑1 to Sassuolo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
The terraces17 Mar 2036
Anger at Hellas Verona spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad17 Mar 2036
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hellas Verona lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market17 Mar 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raffaele Panariello will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Mario Perlingieri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommaso Cecotti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
Amin Sarr 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.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Hellas Verona are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Loan watch17 Mar 2036
9 clean sheets from 26 appearances at Pergolettese. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Feb 2036
A one-man rearguard from Leo Román
There were 14 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
The terraces18 Feb 2036
Anger at Hellas Verona spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match12 Feb 2036
0‑3 to Napoli, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match16 Feb 2036
7 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Market18 Feb 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets18 Feb 2036
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Pescara keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Mario Perlingieri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom18 Feb 2036
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Rémy Guérin has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Words at Hellas Verona training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommaso Cecotti 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.
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Crisis
The terraces21 Jan 2036
Supporters organise against the Hellas Verona board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match19 Jan 2036
A 1‑5 beating by AS Roma was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market21 Jan 2036
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hellas Verona people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Jan 2036
Ben Waine 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 Hellas Verona can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Jan 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout21 Jan 2036
“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.
Transfer targets21 Jan 2036
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Pescara is saying, and nobody at Hellas Verona is enjoying the guessing.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Tian Mačak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Jan 2036
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Hellas Verona and AS Roma, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jan 2036
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hellas Verona have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market14 Jan 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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jan 2036
A move Sebastián Montero 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. Sebastián Montero is living that version at Hellas Verona, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market14 Jan 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2036
The deal with Pescara is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2036
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AZ is saying, and nobody at Hellas Verona is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Jan 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 Hellas Verona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom14 Jan 2036
Bologna will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Hubert Janyszka has pre-agreed a move to Hellas Verona, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets14 Jan 2036
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sevilla have kept their man, and Hellas Verona go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hellas Verona is running low.
Market4 Jun 2035
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Jun 2035
Add another name to the list: AS Roma have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kostas Koulierakis. The answer from Hellas Verona has not changed — yet.
The dugout4 Jun 2035
“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.
Market4 Jun 2035
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hellas Verona heard it as anything else.
Squad4 Jun 2035
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Mitrović and Hellas Verona agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Kostas Koulierakis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Tian Mačak 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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Crisis
Squad8 Jan 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tosin Olawale
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hellas Verona lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Jan 2035
“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 Hellas Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match6 Jan 2035
Beaten 0‑3 by Fiorentina, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market8 Jan 2035
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hellas Verona have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match6 Jan 2035
7 matches without a win for Hellas Verona
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Hellas Verona are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2035
The clubs have shaken hands with Avellino; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The dugout8 Jan 2035
Bruno Faria: 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.” Hellas Verona have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2035
Hellas Verona have gone to Napoli 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.
Market8 Jan 2035
Only the photograph left for Nicolò Rota
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolò Rota will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hellas Verona the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Oct 2034
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings30 Oct 2034
Andrea Pinamonti, 35, rolls back the years — 7.81
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market30 Oct 2034
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Avellino can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Oct 2034
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Avellino is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Words at Avellino training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hans Nicolussi Caviglia 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.
Match28 Oct 2034
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match28 Oct 2034
It finished 1‑0, and it was Andrea Pinamonti’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Avellino.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Borna Proleta 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.
The dugout30 Oct 2034
The manager makes an example of Marinos Tzionis
“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.