Giacomo Chiari

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Process

Marked for Giacomo Chiari

159 Edition

The Virtus Verona Herald

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Virtus Verona board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Virtus Verona

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Virtus Verona is running low.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Diego Begnini

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

Market

Lorenzo Del Pino 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 The request is on a desk at Virtus Verona, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Real improvement from Harrison Gray at Virtus Verona

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Harrison Gray is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Virtus Verona

Nicolò Moranduzzo 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.

The dugout

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Market

One of our own: Giacomo Chiari joins the Virtus Verona first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Giacomo Chiari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Lorenzo Benedetti steps up from the Virtus Verona academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lorenzo Benedetti has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief