The Pontedera Courier
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kevin Bonifazi will not be coming to Pontedera
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Bologna is saying, and nobody at Pontedera is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 academy graduates step up at Pontedera
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sampdoria tell Pontedera: Stefan Gartenmann is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luciano Negri joins the Pontedera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luciano Negri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pontedera promote Marco Bruno from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Bruno 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Luciano Santoro steps up from the Pontedera academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luciano Santoro 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Diego De Luca joins the Pontedera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego De Luca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Philip Yeboah 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pontedera
Davide Guglielmotti 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.
In brief
- Squad Pontedera are still strangers to each other
- Boardroom Pontedera say no to the training-ground money
- Squad This league is too small for Sergio Kalaj