The Udinese Sentinel
Squad9 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Simone Pontel
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Udinese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Aug 2027
Udinese sell Bartosz Mrozek for $4.9M
Bartosz Mrozek has left for Frosinone in a $4.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Padova tell Udinese: Gianluca Caprari is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Udinese
Nicolò Zaniolo 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Alex Ramku at Udinese
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alex Ramku is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Late improvement for Nicolò Bertola
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Jesper Karlström
“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.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
Juan David Arizala counts the days
“I watch every Udinese game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Cittadella runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Nicolò Bertola question follows Udinese around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nicolò Bertola’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Pietro Carrillo leaves for nothing
- Market Ibrahima Tamba leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jakub Piotrowski