Marked for Edoardo Reci
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Nov 2031
“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.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
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Squad17 Nov 2031
Tempers go at Cavese
Thomas Alberti 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.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Jack Senior 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.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
David Vicari gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout17 Nov 2031
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mariano Guerra was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Cavese dressing room was either.
Market17 Nov 2031
Edoardo Reci is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cavese has been clear about where Edoardo Reci stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match15 Nov 2031
Point won or two lost for Cavese?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Casertana? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad20 Oct 2031
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market20 Oct 2031
“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.
The dugout20 Oct 2031
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Market20 Oct 2031
Only the photograph left for Orazio Corsini
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Orazio Corsini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cavese the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Oct 2031
Tempers go at Cavese
Thomas Alberti 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.
Squad20 Oct 2031
A row about effort at Cavese
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dominik Hašek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match18 Oct 2031
It needed Adama Diarrassouba to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Monopoli, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout20 Oct 2031
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout20 Oct 2031
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Cavese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Boardroom28 Jul 2031
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Cavese
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market28 Jul 2031
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cavese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Filippo Calvo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Tempers go at Cavese
Francesco Orlando 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.
Squad28 Jul 2031
Jack Senior 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.
Transfer targets28 Jul 2031
A loan move for Raul Zinni is in the works
Cavese have made the call to AS Roma. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout28 Jul 2031
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Jul 2031
Jack Senior asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout28 Jul 2031
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Orazio Corsini, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jul 2031
“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.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Fiorentina keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words exchanged at Cavese
Francesco Orlando and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom21 Jul 2031
Cavese counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Cavese now.
Squad21 Jul 2031
“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 Cavese know it.
Squad21 Jul 2031
A row about effort at Cavese
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jack Senior was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jul 2031
David Vicari has improved at 24, 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.
The dugout21 Jul 2031
Jack Senior 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 Jack Senior trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Jul 2031
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Thomas Alberti’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Market27 May 2030
Gio Moore puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Carpi, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout27 May 2030
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Carpi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 May 2030
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.
Squad27 May 2030
45 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 May 2030
Rodrick Tcheuna 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.
Market27 May 2030
The name of Matteo Sorzi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Carpi say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout27 May 2030
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nicolò Giuliari is on it.
Match27 May 2030
Carpi have something to play for
Position 6 on 54 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
Squad27 May 2030
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Carpi that is a harder question to answer.