Tom Wiles

Defensive Midfielder - Bari
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tom Wiles

542 Edition

The Bari Sentinel

15 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jayce Fitzgerald breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Bari out of the cup

Cittadella ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match

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

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

Squad

Mehdi Dorval 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 Bari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bari training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthias Verreth is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Juve Stabia take the points off Bari

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Michele Cerofolini

“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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Bari

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Daouda Traoré

Marked 8.98 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief