The Alcione Milano Herald
Match24 Apr 2028
Alcione Milano are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 49 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Alcione Milano
Simone Palombi 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.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Emerick Lopes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Emerick Lopes, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Alcione Milano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elis Rasck was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Filippo Bertolotti gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filippo Bertolotti is on it.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Mirian Jikia is still paying for one afternoon at Alcione Milano
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market24 Apr 2028
The Kevin Bright talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Alcione Milano know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Simone Palombi has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Simone Palombi has written the date down.
Market24 Apr 2028
Hugo Constant runs his contract down
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Alcione Milano money.
In brief
- Squad Ramón Palomares has had enough of the bench
- Market Alcione Milano put Armando Miculi up for sale
- Squad The date has moved again for Sandro Spinelli