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The Sambenedettese Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces22 May 2028

The mood at Sambenedettese 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.

Squad22 May 2028

The knee: Simone Paolini out for 120 days

120 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sambenedettese lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match22 May 2028

Every point is an argument now for Sambenedettese

Position 16 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market22 May 2028

Francesco Scafetta asks to leave Sambenedettese

“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.

The dugout22 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Alessandro Zoboletti

“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.

Squad22 May 2028

A falling-out at Sambenedettese

Joan Traverso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad22 May 2028

Francesco Scafetta 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Pasquale Marranzino knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sambenedettese, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market22 May 2028

The Tommaso Orsini question follows Sambenedettese around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tommaso Orsini’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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The Sambenedettese Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Jan 2027

Nowhere to hide for Sambenedettese

1‑4 against Reggiana, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market11 Jan 2027

Simone Paolini hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sambenedettese can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Sambenedettese

Pepín Machín 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Real improvement from Elia Plicco at Sambenedettese

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elia Plicco is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Pepín Machín

“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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Sambenedettese training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Candellori 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Gianfranco Leiva wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sambenedettese can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Boardroom11 Jan 2027

Nobody left the Sambenedettese 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.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Giulio Greco: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief