Devis Pacchioli

Central Defender - Carpi U20
23 Aug 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Devis Pacchioli

101 Edition

The Carpi Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Carpi give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

The terraces

Carpi sell a favourite for $250.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Alessandro Eleuteri was one of the reasons people came, and $250.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Gabriele Di Cesare asks to leave Carpi

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Matteo Sorzi 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 Carpi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Devis Pacchioli at Carpi

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Devis Pacchioli is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Alessandro Eleuteri moves on

Catanzaro pay $250.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Riccardo Gaiola

“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.

Squad

Stanislav Topinka 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 Carpi will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Carpi academy

4 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
80 Edition

The Carpi Herald

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

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

Market

Erik Gerbi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Carpi can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

Carpi sell a favourite for $310.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Tiago Machado was one of the reasons people came, and $310.0K does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Carpi

Matteo Sorzi 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.

Market

Tiago Machado moves on

Pisa pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Mohamed Force Touré gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mohamed Force Touré has just signed for Carpi, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Carpi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stanislav Topinka 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Matteo Sorzi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Sorzi, and the manager let it.

Match

Carpi come up short against Arezzo

Arezzo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief