Jérôme Lopez

Left Forward - Vis Pesaro
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jérôme Lopez

18 Edition

The Vis Pesaro Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Wiktor Chudy

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

Squad

Denis Tonucci breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nicolò Lari puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vis Pesaro, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to Vis Pesaro's wait for a win

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

Squad

Luca Paganini 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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vis Pesaro count the cost of losing Jérôme Lopez

68 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Boardroom

103% of the income goes out in wages at Vis Pesaro

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Sulayman Jallow

A mark of 7.46, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Vis Pesaro share the spoils with Pianese

A 1‑1 draw with Pianese leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Vis Pesaro Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Denis Tonucci out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vis Pesaro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

5 matches without a win for Vis Pesaro

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Vis Pesaro are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Luca Paganini 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 Vis Pesaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Yannick Woudstra 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Manuel Pucciarelli

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manuel Pucciarelli, and the manager let it.

Match

Vis Pesaro come up short against Pineto

Pineto left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom

125% of the income goes out in wages at Vis Pesaro

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francesco Nicastro

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Talks stall between Vis Pesaro and Francesco Nicastro

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

9 Edition

The Vis Pesaro Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Denis Tonucci breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Vis Pesaro bow out of the cup

Carrarese go through and Vis Pesaro go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Jérôme Lopez gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jérôme Lopez has just signed for Vis Pesaro, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

No end in sight to Vis Pesaro's wait for a win

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

Squad

Tempers go at Vis Pesaro

Luca Paganini 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.

Player ratings

Olaf Kok runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No time for Carrarese to settle

The goal that put Carrarese ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Vis Pesaro equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Squad

Manuel Di Paola 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.

Match

Vis Pesaro and Campobasso take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

6 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules François Aubert out for 36 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tours will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Jérôme Martin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Jérôme Lopez 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 Tours can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Tours are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Market

Eyes on Henri Lacroix again

The phone has started ringing about Henri Lacroix again, and this time the name on the line is Chamois Niortais. Tours are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tours against Valenciennes

2‑3 to Valenciennes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Louis Boyer

Marked 8.10 — 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Arnaud Philippe

“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.

Squad

Pierre Robert dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief