Sergio De Simone

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Benevento
18 Apr 2036
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The Benevento Herald

9 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market9 Apr 2035

Thomas Poletti 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 Benevento can pretend not to have heard.

Market9 Apr 2035

Only the photograph left for Andrea Fiorini

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrea Fiorini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Benevento the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout9 Apr 2035

Sergio De Simone: 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.” Benevento have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match7 Apr 2035

Still nobody has beaten Benevento

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Words at Benevento training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Correnti 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.

Loan watch9 Apr 2035

Nicolò Ferrara has seen enough of Forli

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Benevento, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad9 Apr 2035

A falling-out at Benevento

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

The dugout9 Apr 2035

Manuel Fiorini frozen out at Benevento

This is not rotation. Manuel Fiorini has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Benevento is pretending otherwise.

Loan watch9 Apr 2035

Matteo Farronato’s loan is measured in nothing happening

9 clean sheets from 29 appearances at Catanzaro. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

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The Benevento Herald

20 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Nov 2034

Gabriele Correnti damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.

Squad20 Nov 2034

Tempers go at Benevento

Gabriele Correnti 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.

Squad20 Nov 2034

Thomas Poletti 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.

The dugout20 Nov 2034

The manager has not finished forgetting Matteo Schiavone's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout20 Nov 2034

Sergio De Simone gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout20 Nov 2034

Simone Tonini knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Simone Tonini trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market20 Nov 2034

Manuel Nardozi linked with a move away

The name of Manuel Nardozi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Benevento say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout20 Nov 2034

When it matters, Angelo Lombardo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad20 Nov 2034

Sergio De Simone: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Benevento will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief