Davide Carraro

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The Padova Post

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Paolo Ghiglione says Padova went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Padova

Marco Pompetti 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.

Squad

Gianluca Caprari 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 dugout

Pietro Fusi 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.

Squad

“I want to play”: Davide Carraro speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Market

The Mattia Bortolussi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Padova know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Padova Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Paolo Ghiglione beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Marco Pompetti 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 Padova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Padova do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A row about effort at Padova

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gianluca Caprari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Davide Carraro stays put

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

Boardroom

Joaquin Dalmasso will join Padova for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Joaquin Dalmasso has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Padova have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Ignacio Álvarez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Padova can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Davide Carraro 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.

Loan watch

Giovanni Giunti counts the days

“I watch every Padova game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Genoa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief