The Salernitana Herald
Squad27 Aug 2029
Kees de Boer damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market27 Aug 2029
Terms done: Francesco Gisondi is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Campobasso waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Salernitana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad27 Aug 2029
37 days out for Rody Gómez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Salernitana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Filippo Simoncelli is a medical away from Salernitana
The deal with Union Brescia 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
Nicolas Accoroni has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Salernitana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Salernitana
Pietro Ceccaroni 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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Kees de Boer has improved at 29, 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.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Graduation day at Salernitana
6 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
Salernitana promote Gregorio Guerra from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gregorio Guerra 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.
In brief
- Market Angelo Armani steps up from the Salernitana academy
- Boardroom A promise the Salernitana board did not keep
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Francesco Gobbi