Joël Veltman

Right Back - Bari
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Joël Veltman

5 Edition

The Bari Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Lorenzo Dickmann runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Giuseppe Sibilli damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Bari

Mehdi Dorval 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.

Squad

Gabriele Moncini 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 ratings

Joël Veltman stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.19 on the card, and the Bari support went home talking about one name.

Squad

Bari pick somebody else ahead of Valerio Mantovani

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Bari Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Giuseppe Sibilli damages knee ligaments — 141 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 141 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Bari

Mehdi Dorval 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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Luismi Sánchez signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luismi Sánchez commits to Bari for another 2 years.

In brief

2 Edition

The Brighton Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Modena come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Brighton did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Arsenal watching Kaoru Mitoma

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Brighton have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Bart Verbruggen raises the bar for Brighton

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Brighton heard it as anything else.

Squad

Bart Verbruggen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bart Verbruggen and Brighton agree another 5 years.

Squad

Kaoru Mitoma 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Brighton

Olivier Boscagli 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