Manuel Ferri

Striker - Pescara
9 Jun 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Manuel Ferri

42 Edition

The Pescara Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Lorenzo Meazzi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Meazzi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pescara the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Niccolò Pisilli 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 Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Pescara come up short against Mantova

Mantova left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sebastiano Desplanches

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

Player ratings

Niccolò Pisilli was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.47. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Pescara dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Pescara

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Marcello Fortunato to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Eduardo Acosta wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Pescara know it.

In brief

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The Pescara Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Pescara

0‑3 against Monza, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings

Luís Henrique runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pescara

Giacomo Olzer 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.

Market

Manuel Ferri steps up from the Pescara academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Manuel Ferri 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.

Market

One of our own: Cesare Calabrese joins the Pescara first team

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

Market

Pescara promote Flavio Testa from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Flavio Testa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Pescara promote Jacopo Paganelli from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacopo Paganelli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Pescara dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Words at Pescara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edoardo Saporiti is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief