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305 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

31 May 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market31 May 2032

Only the photograph left for Giacomo Sandrolini

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Giacomo Sandrolini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ascoli the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad31 May 2032

Words exchanged at Ascoli

Gabriele Gori 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.

Squad31 May 2032

Federico Gattoni 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.

Market31 May 2032

Tommaso Milanese linked with a move away

The name of Tommaso Milanese keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ascoli say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout31 May 2032

When it matters, Elia Galletti plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout31 May 2032

Nicolás Watson 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 Nicolás Watson has written the date down.

In brief

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272 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

13 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad13 Oct 2031

The knee: Petar Mišić out for 73 days

73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ascoli lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match11 Oct 2031

No mercy from Ascoli

Gubbio will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ascoli were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings13 Oct 2031

A brace, and Gabriele Gori takes the afternoon — 9.46

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gabriele Gori provided it, and the 9.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings13 Oct 2031

Stefano De Luca, 19, steals the show — 9.15

Marked 9.15 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match11 Oct 2031

Ascoli cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad13 Oct 2031

Words exchanged at Ascoli

Federico Gattoni 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.

Boardroom13 Oct 2031

The numbers do not look good at Ascoli

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

The terraces13 Oct 2031

The crowd has taken to Stefano De Luca

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad13 Oct 2031

Francesco Galuppini 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.

In brief

262 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Aug 2031

Cooper Stewart damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market4 Aug 2031

Matteo Raffaelli has said yes to Torino

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ascoli have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Ascoli count the cost of losing Abdoul Guiebré

42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market4 Aug 2031

Samuele Vitale raises the bar for Ascoli

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Ascoli heard it as anything else.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

No thanks: Agustín Fernández rejects the move

Ascoli had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Benevento, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Words exchanged at Ascoli

Gabriele Gori 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.

Market4 Aug 2031

Only the photograph left for Thomas Cattani

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Thomas Cattani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ascoli the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Gabriele Pagliai out for 28 days

The medical room confirms 28 days on the sidelines for Gabriele Pagliai, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market4 Aug 2031

Eyes on Giacomo Sandrolini again

The phone has started ringing about Giacomo Sandrolini again, and this time the name on the line is Torino. Ascoli are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief