The Ascoli Gazette
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
- The dugout Alessandro Randazzo asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Gabriele Gori
- Squad Pedro Blanco starts on the language
- Squad Luca Lo Scalzo is the talk of the training ground