The Picerno Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
10 saves: Elia Summa was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Léo Abreu falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Picerno rebuffed over Tomás Aranda
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Picerno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Elia Summa
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Léo Abreu gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Lucas Ontivero did the work nobody counts — 6.88
9 combined actions and 6.88. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Picerno count the cost of losing Giulio Calabrese
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Alessandro Romano chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Giuseppe Guadagni
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Match Picerno and Bari cancel each other out
- The dugout No place in the plan for Alessandro Bassoli
- Market The Elia Summa talk will not go away