The Pescara Sentinel
Squad11 Sep 2028
19 days out for Riccardo Capellini after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pescara will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
Eduard Spertsyan will not be coming to Pescara
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Lazio is saying, and nobody at Pescara is enjoying the guessing.
Market11 Sep 2028
Boschilia has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Pescara can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad11 Sep 2028
A falling-out at Pescara
Iván López and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Pescara
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boschilia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
Door shut on Matteo Cichella
Pescara asked and Fiorentina said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Sep 2028
Pescara promote Simone Neri from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simone Neri 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
One of our own: Elia Pellegrini joins the Pescara first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Elia Pellegrini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Sep 2028
Stefano Riva steps up from the Pescara academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefano Riva 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
- Squad Douglas Silva wants to go home
- The dugout Iván López knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Boschilia faces his old club