The Pescara Sentinel
Squad25 Jan 2027
Filippo Guccione damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Orji Okwonkwo
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brandon Molina gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brandon Molina has just signed for Pescara, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Davide Faraoni 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Santiago Úbeda in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pescara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Pescara against Empoli
0‑2 to Empoli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market25 Jan 2027
Pescara sign Roberto Serra, one for the future
Roberto Serra is 15, and Pescara have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market25 Jan 2027
A long bet from Pescara on Orazio Locatelli
He is 14, and nobody at Pescara signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market25 Jan 2027
Pescara sign Nicola Montanari, one for the future
Nicola Montanari is 14, and Pescara have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Pescara sign Fabrizio Chiari, one for the future
- Loan watch Andrea Ferraris keeps scoring at Salernitana
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Leonardo Graziani