Henry Wright

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Carpi
11 Nov 2029
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The Carpi Herald

22 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Roman Shoronov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Carpi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Carpi

Nicolás López and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Matteo Figoli 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.

Match

Carpi come up short against Renate

Renate left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Lorenzo Abati 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.

Squad

Rasmus Andersen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rasmus Andersen and Carpi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Robert Price left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Alexandre Sousa

Nobody at Carpi is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Player ratings

Danilo Regali was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 9. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

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165 Edition

The Carpi Herald

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Carpi

14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Carpi bow out of the cup

Perugia go through and Carpi go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Danilo Regali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Carpi

Nicolás López and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Riccardo Mattoccia would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Riccardo Mattoccia is living that version at Carpi, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

A bad afternoon for Carpi against Pergolettese

1‑3 to Pergolettese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Danilo Regali 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 dugout

No hiding place for Davide Zagnoni

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davide Zagnoni, and the manager let it.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Marco Bertoli deal

Carpi ran out of time with Ospitaletto. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

In brief