Jacques Leclercq

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The Gubbio Post

17 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces17 Dec 2035

The mood at Gubbio has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market17 Dec 2035

Albert Ratnikov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gubbio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market17 Dec 2035

Angelo Tedesco 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 Gubbio can pretend not to have heard.

Squad17 Dec 2035

Marco Spina 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 Gubbio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Dec 2035

Afonso Moreira wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gubbio know it.

Boardroom17 Dec 2035

Wages eat 181% of everything Gubbio earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match15 Dec 2035

Vis Pesaro take the points off Gubbio

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings17 Dec 2035

Nobody could get near Afonso Moreira

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Dec 2035

The manager makes an example of Jacques Leclercq

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

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The Gubbio Post

22 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces22 Oct 2035

The mood at Gubbio has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market22 Oct 2035

Albert Ratnikov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gubbio they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings22 Oct 2035

Age has not caught Marco Spina yet — 7.93

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market22 Oct 2035

Angelo Tedesco 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 Gubbio can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom22 Oct 2035

Gubbio to lose Albert Ratnikov for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Albert Ratnikov has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Tempers go at Gubbio

Francesco Zallu 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.

Squad22 Oct 2035

A move Jacques Leclercq 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. Jacques Leclercq is living that version at Gubbio, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad22 Oct 2035

Marco Spina 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.

Match20 Oct 2035

Gubbio come up short against Ternana

Ternana left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

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