Danilo Grasso

Striker - Free Agent
7 Dec 2031
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Marked for Danilo Grasso

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The Giana Erminio Herald

26 May 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market26 May 2031

Marco Ballabio is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Giana Erminio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market26 May 2031

Danilo Grasso 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 The request is on a desk at Giana Erminio, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 May 2031

Words exchanged at Giana Erminio

Nicolas Previtali 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.

Boardroom26 May 2031

Wages swallow 169% of the Giana Erminio income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

Market26 May 2031

Mohammed Moudjar told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mohammed Moudjar has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Giana Erminio.

Market26 May 2031

The clock does Marco Ballabio’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Giana Erminio could ask drops and the wages Marco Ballabio can ask rise.

The dugout26 May 2031

Nicolò Rizzo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Giana Erminio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout26 May 2031

The manager makes Michaël Akinjogunla a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Giana Erminio. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout26 May 2031

Gabriele Zani knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gabriele Zani trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The Giana Erminio Herald

21 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom21 Apr 2031

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Giana Erminio

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Player ratings21 Apr 2031

Age has not caught Simone Saporetti yet — 8.86

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market21 Apr 2031

Danilo Grasso asks to leave Giana Erminio

“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.

Squad21 Apr 2031

A falling-out at Giana Erminio

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

Squad21 Apr 2031

Defences have started doubling up on Simone Saporetti

12 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

The dugout21 Apr 2031

The manager makes an example of Andrea Sergio Mazza

“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.

Boardroom21 Apr 2031

No signings allowed at Giana Erminio

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Match19 Apr 2031

Giana Erminio rescue it on 96 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 96. Dolomiti Bellunesi had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad21 Apr 2031

Giana Erminio lose Michele Sanna

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

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The Giana Erminio Herald

24 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets24 Jun 2030

Daniele Petrone will not be coming to Giana Erminio

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AC Milan is saying, and nobody at Giana Erminio is enjoying the guessing.

Boardroom24 Jun 2030

Giana Erminio to lose Arnaud Caron for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Arnaud Caron has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad24 Jun 2030

A falling-out at Giana Erminio

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

The dugout24 Jun 2030

No hiding place for Filippo Porciatti

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

Squad24 Jun 2030

A row about effort at Giana Erminio

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Simone Calvano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets24 Jun 2030

A loan move for Thomas Clementi is in the works

Giana Erminio have made the call to Renate. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market24 Jun 2030

The Simone Saporetti talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Giana Erminio know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout24 Jun 2030

Nicolò Rizzo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Giana Erminio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad24 Jun 2030

Competition arrives for Nicolas Previtali

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Giana Erminio have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief