The Pineto Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Alessandro Seghetti rejects the move
Pineto had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Padova, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pineto
Filippo D'Andrea 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Pineto rebuffed over Lucas Gaona
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Temperley have kept their man, and Pineto go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pineto promote Orazio Gamberini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Orazio Gamberini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Cristiano Verdi joins the Pineto first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristiano Verdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gabriele Calabrese steps up from the Pineto academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriele Calabrese has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Romano Bosco joins the Pineto first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Romano Bosco is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Rodrigo Linares in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pineto are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Pineto try to borrow Denys Tvardovskyi
Shakhtar 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.
In brief
- Squad Rodrigo Linares still has not settled
- Squad Alessandro Tonti has seen what the next man earns