Teun Bosch

Defensive Midfielder - Novara
4 Dec 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Teun Bosch

360 Edition

The Novara Gazette

20 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Da Graca

60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Novara lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Novara are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 69 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Riccardo Collodel has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Novara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom

Novara to lose Riccardo Collodel for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Riccardo Collodel 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.

Market

Matteo Spizzirri wants more than Novara are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Eyob Zambataro 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Édouard Le Roux

Novara asked and Sassuolo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

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Squad

A falling-out at Novara

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

In brief

Back issues
329 Edition

The Novara Gazette

15 Nov 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrea Moretti damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.

Match

Novara tear Alcione Milano apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Alcione Milano, and it could have been more.

Market

Leandro Riva 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 Novara, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Novara

Marco Da Graca 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.

Squad

Ignazio Pagani out for 30 days

The medical room confirms 30 days on the sidelines for Ignazio Pagani, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

A move Teun Bosch 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. Teun Bosch is living that version at Novara, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Novara make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

One of those days for Marco Da Graca

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Mattia Malaspina was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.34. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief