The Giana Erminio Herald
Squad27 Aug 2029
David Vicari damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Too dear: Giana Erminio walk away from Camillo Tavernelli
$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Bologna 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.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Daouda Fofana will not be coming to Giana Erminio
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Pro Vercelli is saying, and nobody at Giana Erminio is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Giana Erminio bid $85.0K for Matteo Piazza
The offer went to Sampdoria this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Federico Renda 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 Giana Erminio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
8 academy players handed senior numbers at Giana Erminio
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.
Transfer targets27 Aug 2029
Giana Erminio rebuffed over Christian Aucelli
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Trento have kept their man, and Giana Erminio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad27 Aug 2029
Luca Ferri 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.
Market27 Aug 2029
Luca Ferri told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Luca Ferri has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Giana Erminio.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Gregorio Sala joins the Giana Erminio first team
- Market Alessio Schiavone steps up from the Giana Erminio academy
- Market Giana Erminio promote Dario Cecconi from within