Jonathan Robinson

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Ospitaletto
3 Dec 2028
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The Ospitaletto Sentinel

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Ospitaletto sink to position 18

27 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Edoardo Alberti breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Alessandro Torri 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 The request is on a desk at Ospitaletto, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Ospitaletto

Mario Ierardi 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

Real improvement from Piero Solinas at Ospitaletto

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Piero Solinas is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for Antonio Salado

At 31 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.

In brief

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The Newcastle United Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Harvey Barnes damages knee ligaments — 44 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No end in sight to Newcastle United's wait for a win

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

Market

Newcastle United say no — this time

The offer from Millwall for Bazoumana Touré was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Newcastle United

Nick Woltemade 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

Nico González 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.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Newcastle United dugout

9 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Market

Tottenham expected to open talks for Lewis Miley

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Newcastle United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bazoumana Touré

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Gavin Bazunu

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

In brief