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Uneasy
Match30 Oct 2027
9 matches without a win for Pianese
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Pianese are no longer polite ones.
Market1 Nov 2027
Simone Ianesi 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Pianese
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Masetti
“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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Pianese and Carpi take a point apiece
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Match16 Oct 2027
7 matches without a win for Pianese
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Pianese are no longer polite ones.
Market18 Oct 2027
“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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Willames José has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“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.
Match16 Oct 2027
Honours even between Pianese and Forli
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Francesco Chesti asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market18 Oct 2027
Pianese have made Maid Ahmed available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market18 Oct 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Tommaso Chiavarino moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
The press cannot get enough of Stefano Cella
Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.
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Crisis
Market4 Oct 2027
Simone Ianesi 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Thomas Clementi: 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.” Pianese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match2 Oct 2027
5 matches without a win for Pianese
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Pianese are no longer polite ones.
Match2 Oct 2027
Ternana left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Oct 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Market20 Sep 2027
“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 Sep 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market20 Sep 2027
Willames José has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Sep 2027
94 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Masetti
“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.
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Uneasy
Market6 Sep 2027
$1.8M. No player has ever cost Pianese more, and expectation arrives with him.
Market6 Sep 2027
Simone Ianesi 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match4 Sep 2027
Three points for Pianese, 1-0 the final word against Guidonia Montecelio in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Claudio Martey, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The numbers do not look good at Pianese
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Stefano Cella 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 Pianese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
$428.9K a year onto the Pianese books
A new partner, a signature and a photograph nobody will remember. It funds a fortnight of wages, which is more than most headlines on this page can say for themselves.
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Crisis
Market16 Aug 2027
Marco Bertini 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Simone Ianesi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
Market16 Aug 2027
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Pianese could get for him.
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Crisis
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Pianese
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Diego Battaglia has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Pianese can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market2 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Market2 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Francesco Parisi and Pianese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Peli
“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.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Pianese pull $52.8K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market2 Aug 2027
The name of Luca Fabrizi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Somebody is after Luca Fabrizi’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Luca Fabrizi suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Pianese have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Uneasy
Match26 Jul 2027
Pianese are in real trouble now
Position 17, 31 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market26 Jul 2027
“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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Willames José has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market26 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pianese know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Marco Bertini asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market26 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Willames José may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Uneasy
Market19 Jul 2027
Marco Bertini 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Jul 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Pianese signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Simone Ianesi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Luca Ercolani asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market19 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Lorenzo Vigiani may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Jacopo Montagna keeps the shirt for now, at Pianese's convenience rather than his own.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
Marco Bertini 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Pianese is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 21, Lorenzo Berardi is already the best thing here
An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. Pianese have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Market21 Jun 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pianese will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Leonardo Bellini asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Simone Ianesi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pianese say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Market22 Mar 2027
Marco Bertini 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces22 Mar 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Match20 Mar 2027
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Leonardo Bellini asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Pianese
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Manuel Tirelli has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Pianese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A season average of 7.04 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Pianese know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Emiliano Filippis will call it something else in private.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Luca Simeoni
“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.
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Crisis
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
There were 6 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Marco Bertini: 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.” Pianese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match6 Feb 2027
Three points for Pianese, 1-0 the final word against Pontedera in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Pianese have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Pianese pull $52.8K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market8 Feb 2027
Pianese have made Alex Mancini available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pianese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Jan 2027
Marco Bertini 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 Pianese can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marco Bertini: 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.” Pianese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Gabriel Guri knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pianese, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Pianese
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pianese are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Pianese against Forli
0-1 to Forli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gabriel Guri lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Pianese have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Simone Ianesi and Pianese agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.