Jack Vale

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Pineto
29 Sep 2026
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Marked for Jack Vale

8 Edition

The Pineto Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tommaso Gastaldello breaks a bone — 35 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 35 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Jack Vale

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Filippo D'Andrea 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 Pineto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Tommy Reid gets it from the manager
  • Match Honours even between Pineto and Ascoli
  • Squad 6 new faces, and Pineto are still learning each other
Back issues
7 Edition

The Pineto Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Tommaso Gastaldello out for 43 days

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

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Gianluca Germinario runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tommy Reid 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Pineto

Jack Vale 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Pineto buy the years ahead of Tommaso Gastaldello

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market14 Sep 2026

Pineto sign Matteo Bruno, one for the future

Matteo Bruno is 14, and Pineto have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

6 Edition

The Pineto Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Pineto

Luca Schirone 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Marco Spina

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

The crowd has taken to Markus Junuzovic

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Luca Lombardi 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

Pineto get the job done against Carpi

A 1‑0 win over Carpi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Pineto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Reid 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Pineto Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Aug 2026

A move Jack Vale 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. Jack Vale is living that version at Pineto, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Jack Vale signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jack Vale commits to Pineto for another 3 years.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Pineto

Filippo D'Andrea 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.

In brief