Patrick Visintini

Striker - Udinese U20
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick Visintini

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The Udinese Sentinel

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Dimitris Sounas

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dimitris Sounas will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Udinese the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Saba Goglichidze

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Mac Learned wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Udinese know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Udinese

Patrick Visintini 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.

Player ratings

Saba Goglichidze takes the honours

Marked 7.22 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Udinese had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The form table has caught Kingsley Ehizibue

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Fabrizio Troisi on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad

Iker Bravo 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 Udinese will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dimitris Sounas

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

In brief

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The Udinese Sentinel

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Christian Kabasele damages knee ligaments — 55 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.

Market

Nicolò Bertola 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 Udinese can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Vakoun Issouf Bayo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Udinese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

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

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

Squad

Tempers go at Udinese

Unai Gómez 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.

Match

Udinese refuse to lose to Torino

A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Squad

Patrick Visintini stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrick Visintini and Udinese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Jordan Zemura beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Simone Pafundi’s exile

9 goals in 31 games at Catanzaro — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Udinese updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief