Peter Turner

Striker - Free Agent
28 Sep 2031
Sunday
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Marked for Peter Turner

246 Edition

The Arzignano Post

14 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Joel Eriksson breaks a bone — 60 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

A brace, and Tancredi Vella takes the afternoon — 8.76

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tancredi Vella provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Tancredi Vella

23 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Jacopo Sassi stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

Peter Turner keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Arzignano may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Arzignano

Salvatore Boccia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Arzignano get the job done against Pergolettese

A 2‑0 win over Pergolettese, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Boardroom

The borrowing at Arzignano reaches $19.8M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $19.8M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout

The team sheet said everything about Gabriele Negri

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gabriele Negri.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout The form table has caught Gabriele Negri
  • Boardroom Arzignano can only buy what they sell
Back issues
231 Edition

The Arzignano Post

30 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Arzignano spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Arzignano

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Christian Gatti hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arzignano can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

7 saves: Francesco Molica was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

Peter Turner: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Arzignano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tancredi Vella is carrying Arzignano

16 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Oliver Luterán 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 Arzignano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Arzignano

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erald Lakti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 194% of the Arzignano income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

173 Edition

The Arzignano Post

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Arzignano

Tancredi Vella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Salvatore Boccia 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Umberto Legrottaglie

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Jacopo Sassi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jacopo Sassi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The Salvatore Boccia talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Arzignano know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Giacomo Pavanello has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Arzignano will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief