Isaiah David

Central Midfielder - Picerno
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167 Edition

The Picerno Post

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom8 Oct 2029

Belts tighten at Picerno

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Samuel Pugliese 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 dugout8 Oct 2029

The manager makes an example of Nicola Fasan

“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.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Isaiah David signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Isaiah David and Picerno agree another 4 years.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Words exchanged at Picerno

Ignacio Caroca 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.

Squad8 Oct 2029

A place in the month's best eleven for Angelo Veltri

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Angelo Veltri has come out of that comparison in the side, and Picerno have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout8 Oct 2029

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Tommaso Cassano chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Market8 Oct 2029

Elias Toft Nordrum is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Picerno has been clear about where Elias Toft Nordrum stands, which is more than many ever get.

Match6 Oct 2029

Point won or two lost for Picerno?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Crotone? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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The Picerno Post

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Aug 2029

Yair Cerda breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad6 Aug 2029

A falling-out at Picerno

Filippo Frison and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Words at Picerno training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Pugliese 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.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Home is on Isaiah David's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Picerno are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets6 Aug 2029

Picerno try to borrow Marco Bevilacqua

Juve Stabia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout6 Aug 2029

The manager makes an example of Elias Toft Nordrum

“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.

Market6 Aug 2029

The shop window has Angelo Veltri in it

Picerno have let the market know Angelo Veltri can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout6 Aug 2029

Samuel Pugliese knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Picerno, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market6 Aug 2029

The Elia Summa story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Elia Summa signs something — a contract at Picerno or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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The Picerno Post

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets18 Jun 2029

Mattia Zaramella is a medical away from Picerno

The deal with Cosenza is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad18 Jun 2029

A falling-out at Picerno

Robson Luiz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market18 Jun 2029

Léo Abreu moves on

Padova pay $350.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Boardroom18 Jun 2029

The numbers do not look good at Picerno

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Angelo Veltri 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.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Tobias Solbakken stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tobias Solbakken and Picerno agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

The manager makes an example of Dario Del Fabro

“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.

The dugout18 Jun 2029

Samuel Pugliese 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.

Squad18 Jun 2029

Isaiah David is a square peg at Picerno

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

106 Edition

The Abia Warriors Post

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Aug 2028

Terms done: Suraju Lawal is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and PWD Bamenda waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Abia Warriors is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market7 Aug 2028

Somiari Alalibo asks to leave Abia Warriors

“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.

Match5 Aug 2028

The run at home goes on for Abia Warriors

13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Suraju Lawal 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 Abia Warriors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces7 Aug 2028

One of their own: Isaiah David

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match5 Aug 2028

Sunday Megwo the difference as Abia Warriors beat El-Kanemi Warriors

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sunday Megwo. 1‑0 against El-Kanemi Warriors, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Number 50 for Sunday Megwo

50 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.

Market7 Aug 2028

Wikki Tourists watching Ikenna John

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Abia Warriors have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Francis Obumneme stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis Obumneme and Abia Warriors agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief