Peter Smith

Right Midfielder - Pro Patria
5 Aug 2043
Wednesday
Process

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The Pro Patria Gazette

8 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pro Patria put Lorenzo Ranieri on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

The Pro Patria board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Market

Samuel Monteiro asks to leave Pro Patria

“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.

Boardroom

The Pro Patria board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad

Nicolò Camarda 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 Pro Patria this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

The owner puts $475.3K into Pro Patria

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad

Words at Pro Patria training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gerardo Marino 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.

Squad

Samuel Monteiro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samuel Monteiro commits to Pro Patria for another 4 years.

Squad

Hovhannes Adamyan 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 Pro Patria know it.

In brief