Marked for Bartosz Bereszyński
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Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Forli have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Forli asked and Virtus Entella said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Filippo Ercolani and Forli agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Forli have made the call to Cavese. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Diego Rossi talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Forli know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Forli says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Forli. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market9 Aug 2027
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market9 Aug 2027
Forli have made Andrea Riva available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Market26 Jul 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 Forli can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Forli is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Forli asked and Empoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market26 Jul 2027
Jacopo De Cintio is 20, and Forli 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Foggia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Lumezzane 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Forli will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
Match19 Jul 2027
Forli are in real trouble now
Position 16, 25 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.
Market19 Jul 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 Forli can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Cagliari; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Forli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Derick Keiser arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Derick Keiser has, at Forli, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Bartosz Bereszyński from Palermo for $250.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Market19 Jul 2027
Business is business: Giulio Veliaj goes
Giugliano paid $120.0K and Forli took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets19 Jul 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 dugout19 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlo De Risio, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Forli have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Forli and Palermo have settled on $250.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Juventus keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Forli
Jacopo Scaccabarozzi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Perugia have kept their man, and Forli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Jul 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nicola Farinelli has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Forli.
Market12 Jul 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raffaele Cassano has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Jul 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Claudio Galli has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
A loan enquiry to Napoli: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match8 Mar 2027
Palermo are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mattia Perin commits to Palermo for another 2 years.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mattia Bani
“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 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Palermo
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Edoardo Pieragnolo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Giosuè Grippa 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Dennis Johnsen
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Palermo heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mattia Perin and Palermo agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Gyasi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Tommaso Augello’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“59 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 34 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with Palermo.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Porto 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.