Leandro Bonetti

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The Pergolettese Sentinel

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Pergolettese board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Pergolettese

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Pergolettese is running low.

Squad

A fracture rules Davis Mensah out for 101 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pergolettese will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Luca Pallassini 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 The request is on a desk at Pergolettese, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Samuele Careccia 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 Pergolettese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for Pergolettese against Triestina

0‑2 to Triestina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Gianmarco Angiolini

“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.

The dugout

Vincenzo Corsini: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Zaid Jaouhari asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Pergolettese Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pergolettese part company with Gabriele Castelli

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Boardroom

Mario De Luca takes charge at Pergolettese

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Squad

Real improvement from Elia Favicchio at Pergolettese

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elia Favicchio is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pergolettese

Samuele Careccia 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

Niccolò Corti has improved at 27, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Pergolettese

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

One of our own: Vincenzo Lombardo joins the Pergolettese first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vincenzo Lombardo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Valerio Bruni steps up from the Pergolettese academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valerio 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.

Market

Pergolettese promote Diego Cecconi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Diego Cecconi 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.

In brief