The Salernitana Herald
Squad21 Jul 2031
The knee: Víctor Saya out for 116 days
116 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Salernitana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Jul 2031
Marlon García asks to leave Salernitana
“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.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Francesco Tommasi due for a Salernitana medical
Everything agreed with Palermo, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Tempers go at Salernitana
Mattia Vitale 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.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Real improvement from Riccardo Palombi at Salernitana
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Riccardo Palombi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Aimar Blanco arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Aimar Blanco has, at Salernitana, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Pontedera tell Salernitana: Pietro Faccioli 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.
The dugout21 Jul 2031
The manager makes an example of Filip Zápotočný
“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.
The dugout21 Jul 2031
A promise honoured at Salernitana
Something was said to Mihai Bordeianu and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
In brief
- The dugout Nicolas Accoroni gets picked when it counts
- Market The Mikel Amondarain talk will not go away
- The dugout Laïd Chahine Bellaouel knocks on the manager's door