Mahmoud Tarek

Right Midfielder - Giana Erminio U20
28 Oct 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mahmoud Tarek

97 Edition

The Giana Erminio Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Giana Erminio spell it out for Gennaro Caputo

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Gennaro Caputo has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Giana Erminio

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Giacomo Voglino: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Giana Erminio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Giana Erminio

Nicolas Previtali 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

Vid Oblak gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vid Oblak has just signed for Giana Erminio, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Giana Erminio training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matteo Marotta 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.

Market

A long bet from Giana Erminio on Mahmoud Tarek

He is 19, and nobody at Giana Erminio signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Giana Erminio sign Vid Oblak, one for the future

Vid Oblak is 17, and Giana Erminio have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Boardroom

$437.1K taken back off the Giana Erminio table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief