The Cesena Chronicle
Squad27 Mar 2028
The knee: Davide Apuzzo out for 33 days
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cesena lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Cesena
Manuel García 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Cesena training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kike Pérez 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 dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Kike Pérez
“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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Federico Ravaglia wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Alberto Cerri knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alberto Cerri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market27 Mar 2028
Andrea Cambiaso linked with a move away
The name of Andrea Cambiaso keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cesena say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
David Okereke has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cesena will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
Matteo Guidi has made Picerno’s shirt his own
24 starts now, an average of 6.66, and the team sheet at Picerno has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Marco Olivieri a promise
- Market The stand keeps filling up for Cristian Shpendi
- Boardroom Cesena keep producing them