Patrick Faure

Central Defender - Free Agent
26 Oct 2031
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222 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

28 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

8 saves: Domenico Lamberti was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

Patrick Faure: 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.” Cavese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Matt Johnson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cavese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Leonardo Graziani’s goal not enough for Cavese

Leonardo Graziani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Picerno, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cavese

James Hughes 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.

Player ratings

Leonardo Graziani was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

Gabriel Kulla was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Tommaso Romano answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Francesco D'Amore 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 Francesco D'Amore is on it.

In brief

Back issues
205 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Niko Turunen 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 Cavese can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Cavese

Leonardo Graziani 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kerim Alajbegović

Cavese asked and AC Milan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

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Squad

Dagur Dan Kristinsson 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.

Squad

Cesare Paganelli stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cesare Paganelli and Cavese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Still no ink between Cavese and Domenico Lamberti

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Cavese, another week without a signature from Domenico Lamberti.

Transfer targets

Cavese try to borrow Pietro Baccelli

Audace Cerignola have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Cavese

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

In brief

199 Edition

The Cavese Sentinel

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Cavese

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

Squad

Words at Cavese training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dagur Dan Kristinsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

The Vittorio Agostinelli question follows Cavese around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vittorio Agostinelli’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief