Jacob Watson

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101 Edition

The Pontedera Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Dario Andreoli has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Pontedera can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Pontedera

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Pontedera is running low.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Riccardo Ladinetti 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 Pontedera this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Jul 2028

This league is too small for Edoardo Saporiti

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Pontedera will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Jacob Watson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jacob Watson and Pontedera agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Wages eat 89% of everything Pontedera earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Michele Bruno has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Pontedera will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

$616.6K taken back off the Pontedera table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Market3 Jul 2028

The Elvis Kabashi question follows Pontedera around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Elvis Kabashi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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84 Edition

The Pontedera Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

Pontedera run out of patience with Diego Corsini

The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Diego Corsini clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.

Boardroom6 Mar 2028

Dario Andreoli minds the shop at Pontedera

“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Dario Andreoli recited it perfectly.

Match4 Mar 2028

No end in sight to Pontedera's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pontedera has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Pablo Vitali signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pablo Vitali commits to Pontedera for another 4 years.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Pontedera

Pablo Vitali 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.

Squad6 Mar 2028

Umberto Saracco 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.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Pablo Vitali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market6 Mar 2028

Pontedera sign Jacob Watson, one for the future

Jacob Watson is 19, and Pontedera have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Match4 Mar 2028

Pontedera and Ascoli take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief