The Salernitana Herald
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Armando Anastasio out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Salernitana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Jonas Heinz damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Vis Pesaro come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Salernitana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Jun 2027
Ismail Achik 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 Salernitana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Kees de Boer 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Door shut on Ben Lhassine Koné
Salernitana asked and Genoa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Jun 2027
Salernitana promote Salvatore Villa from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Salvatore Villa 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
One of our own: Gianluca Giuliani joins the Salernitana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gianluca Giuliani is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismail Achik 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.
In brief
- The dugout Thomas Luciano knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout When it matters, Sebastiano Sciarretta plays
- The dugout A door opens for Eugenio D'Ursi