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Crisis
Squad7 Apr 2031
A fracture rules Mikel Kaloshi out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Segesta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Apr 2031
Segesta sink to position 9
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
Tobias Wolff has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Segesta can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
Crisis meeting at Segesta
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Market7 Apr 2031
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Mikel Kaloshi 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.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
$363.2K of the owner's money at Segesta
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Lovro Herceg in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Armando Iuliano 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.
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Crisis
The terraces17 Mar 2031
Anger at Segesta spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad17 Mar 2031
A fracture rules Mikel Kaloshi out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Segesta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom17 Mar 2031
The scrutiny sharpens at Segesta
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Segesta is running low.
Market17 Mar 2031
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Segesta can pretend not to have heard.
Squad17 Mar 2031
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Segesta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Mar 2031
Segesta cannot sign anybody
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
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Crisis
Match18 Nov 2030
Segesta sink to position 9
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market18 Nov 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match16 Nov 2030
7 matches without a win for Segesta
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Segesta are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Armando Iuliano: 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.” Segesta have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Nov 2030
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match16 Nov 2030
7 matches without a goal for Segesta
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Mikel Kaloshi 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.
Match16 Nov 2030
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Nov 2030
Armando Iuliano 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.
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Crisis
Market14 Oct 2030
“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 Segesta, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Mikel Kaloshi 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.
Match12 Oct 2030
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Oct 2030
Giorgi Beraia 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.
Player ratings14 Oct 2030
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Oct 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikollas Sena, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad9 Sep 2030
A fracture rules Jeremiah Olaleke out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Segesta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Sep 2030
The wait goes on for Segesta
4 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.
Squad9 Sep 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stipo Marković commits to Segesta for another 1 years.
Squad9 Sep 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Segesta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Sep 2030
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Words at Segesta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Armando Iuliano 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.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
Segesta are $15.9M in the red
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Boardroom9 Sep 2030
Wages eat 102% of everything Segesta 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.
Market9 Sep 2030
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mikel Kaloshi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Market20 May 2030
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad20 May 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Segesta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 May 2030
Words at Segesta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giorgi Beraia 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.
Squad20 May 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bojan Budimir, and the manager let it.
Market20 May 2030
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mikel Kaloshi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad20 May 2030
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Artem Polishchuk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
The terraces15 Apr 2030
The mood at Segesta 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.
Market15 Apr 2030
“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 Segesta, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Apr 2030
Luka Kožić 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.
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Crisis
Match17 Nov 2029
No end in sight to Segesta's wait for a win
21 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Segesta has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Nov 2029
Segesta sink to position 10
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match17 Nov 2029
Nowhere to hide for Segesta
0‑3 against Sesvete, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match17 Nov 2029
5 matches without a goal for Segesta
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Luka Kožić 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.
Boardroom19 Nov 2029
No signings allowed at Segesta
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Armando Iuliano 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.
Boardroom19 Nov 2029
Nobody left the Segesta dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad19 Nov 2029
Ivan Perisic 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.