Pro Vercelli U20

31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process
4 Edition

The Pro Vercelli Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dean Huiberts in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pro Vercelli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Pro Vercelli

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at Pro Vercelli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.

Transfer targets

Pro Vercelli rebuffed over José Neto

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Benfica have kept their man, and Pro Vercelli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Ciro Moretti joins the Pro Vercelli first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ciro Moretti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Mauro Baldini steps up from the Pro Vercelli academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mauro Baldini has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Fabrizio Casadei joins the Pro Vercelli first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabrizio Casadei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Pro Vercelli promote Filippo Zangari from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Filippo Zangari 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.

Boardroom

Pro Vercelli 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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Pro Vercelli Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Bahmed Deuff will not be coming to Pro Vercelli

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Nantes is saying, and nobody at Pro Vercelli is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Pro Vercelli

Dean Huiberts 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

Achraf el Bouchataoui 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 targets

Door shut on Francesco Folino

Pro Vercelli asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Pedro Paulo 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. Pro Vercelli know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Transfer targets

Pro Vercelli ask about Andrej Vasović

A loan enquiry to Club Brugge: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

2 Edition

The Pro Vercelli Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Bahmed Deuff

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pro Vercelli have done the hard part with FC Nantes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Pro Vercelli

Achraf el Bouchataoui 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.

Market

Talks stall between Pro Vercelli and Gianmario Comi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

48 months and counting on Mohamed Mallahi

Still no offer on the table, and Mohamed Mallahi’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Daouda Fofana 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

Achraf el Bouchataoui has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Achraf el Bouchataoui keeps the shirt for now, at Pro Vercelli's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

1 Edition

The Pro Vercelli Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

10 seasons of Gianmario Comi

412 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Pro Vercelli know what they have.

Squad

Achraf el Bouchataoui signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Achraf el Bouchataoui and Pro Vercelli agree another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pro Vercelli

Dean Huiberts 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Pro Vercelli

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Achraf el Bouchataoui was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Talks stall between Pro Vercelli and Dean Huiberts

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

49 months and counting on Achraf el Bouchataoui

Still no offer on the table, and Achraf el Bouchataoui’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief