Marked for Andrei Anton
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Kristjan Matošević 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Enzo Ebosse 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Boca Juniors have kept their man, and Triestina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Enzo Ebosse 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lorenzo Di Livio trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad15 Feb 2027
The formation has left Rubén Pestana behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Triestina will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market15 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Triestina know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Triestina. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Triestina would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 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 Triestina can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Triestina is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Fanis Bakoulas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
At 23 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.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Ospitaletto made Triestina work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Triestina had the best player on the pitch.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Olympiacos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Triestina
Lorenzo Di Livio 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gastón Ada has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Triestina know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Triestina say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Triestina
Gastón Ada arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Christopher Attys’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Triestina needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gastón Ada still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Triestina would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torres have kept their man, and Triestina go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Boca Juniors, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kristjan Matošević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kristjan Matošević and Triestina agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Triestina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Triestina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Tonetto 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Lorenzo Di Livio’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Triestina are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Monaco have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.