Edoardo Barbi

Striker - NK Krsko
12 Dec 2027
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The NK Krsko Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for NK Krsko

0‑3 against Olimpija Ljubljana, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

The wait goes on for NK Krsko

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted NK Krsko

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at NK Krsko can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Marko Ristić 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 NK Krsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jakob Zbašnik signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakob Zbašnik and NK Krsko agree another 4 years.

Squad

Andrej Kotnik 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.

Player ratings

Felipe Barrientos 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Tadej Petančič

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the NK Krsko dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

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The Modena Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian Cauz

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

Squad

Real improvement from Noah Nadje at Modena

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noah Nadje is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A move Damiano Menna 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. Damiano Menna is living that version at Modena, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Alessandro Sersanti has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market

Damiano Menna placed on the list

Modena have made Damiano Menna available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Modena pick up Damiano Menna for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Damiano Menna arrives at Modena with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief