Bill Cacace

Striker - AS DGSSIE
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The AS DGSSIE Gazette

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces7 Aug 2028

Anger at AS DGSSIE spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market7 Aug 2028

Moubarak Djibrine hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AS DGSSIE can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Pressure builds in the AS DGSSIE boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Sardor Qudratov 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

A late step up for Ebuka Nneji

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Moubarak Djibrine 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Satrio Azhar 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 AS DGSSIE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market7 Aug 2028

The Satrio Azhar conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: AS Etat Major will make the call about Satrio Azhar this week. AS DGSSIE have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market7 Aug 2028

A long bet from AS DGSSIE on Thomas Partey

He is 18, and nobody at AS DGSSIE signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

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The Team Wellington Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad23 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommy McCowatt

73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match23 Aug 2027

Team Wellington are in real trouble now

Position 7, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Stefan Colvey at Team Wellington

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stefan Colvey is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Francis Nelson has improved at 25, 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Matt Smith 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

WaiBOP United are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Team Wellington will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief