The Pontedera Courier
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Paolo Bighetti is a medical away from Pontedera
The deal with Cremonese is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
No thanks: Yaw Asamoah Agyei rejects the move
Pontedera had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Atalanta, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Tom Auvré at Pontedera
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tom Auvré is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Omar Fayed has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Pontedera
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Pontedera training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Fayed 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Sebastiano Desplanches
Pontedera asked and Palermo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Pontedera
Riccardo Ladinetti 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Alessio Ferri joins the Pontedera first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alessio Ferri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Giovanni Ferrigno joins the Pontedera first team
- Market Luciano Pugliese steps up from the Pontedera academy
- Market Alberto Esposito steps up from the Pontedera academy