The Casertana Gazette
Market27 Aug 2029
Klāvs Bethers agrees terms with Pescara
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Casertana people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Too dear: Casertana walk away from Kevin Martins
$1.8M was the most the club would pay and Monza were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
Casertana tie Angelo Bellini down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad27 Aug 2029
A falling-out at Casertana
Shady Oukhadda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Casertana
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Words at Casertana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacopo Manconi 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.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Triestina tell Casertana: Michele Barbella is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market27 Aug 2029
Casertana promote Giorgio Marchetti from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Giorgio Marchetti 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
Edoardo Bruni steps up from the Casertana academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Edoardo Bruni 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.
In brief
- Market Casertana promote Giovanni Morelli from within
- The dugout news_h_frozen_out_of_the_side
- Squad Franco Brambilla stays put