From our football correspondent
Steady
Market6 Sep 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market6 Sep 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ternana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Ternana close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 9 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad6 Sep 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
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Market30 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ternana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match28 Aug 2027
Ternana cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad30 Aug 2027
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad30 Aug 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Marco Garetto has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets30 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market23 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ternana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Carlo Evangelista is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Ternana
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market23 Aug 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Filippo Dalla Costa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Franco Pasquali 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelo Ndrecka 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market16 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market16 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for César Falletti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. César Falletti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ternana the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
Gioele Bosi 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.
The dugout16 Aug 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Ternana. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market9 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
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Market9 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Cremonese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bruno Martella. The answer from Ternana has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The deal with Genoa is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad9 Aug 2027
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Federico Romeo has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfredo Donnarumma and Ternana agree another 2 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to César Falletti, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Aug 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market2 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfredo Donnarumma commits to Ternana for another 2 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angelo Ndrecka 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ternana can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad2 Aug 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Genoa 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.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
César Falletti knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and César Falletti trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Aug 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Francesco D'Alterio’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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The dugout
The manager makes Liam Kerrigan a promise
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Match
Nothing left to play for but pride at Ternana
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Jul 2027
Arezzo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ternana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Venezia have kept their man, and Ternana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Angelo Ndrecka 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Ternana are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Liam Kerrigan
“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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Stefano Pettinari has written the date down.
Market26 Jul 2027
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Ternana money.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Carlos Corona knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Carlos Corona trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Jul 2027
Ternana say no — this time
The offer from Avellino for Francesco D'Alterio was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market19 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for César Falletti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. César Falletti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ternana the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market19 Jul 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Alexis Ferrante has come up in conversations Ternana were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Filippo Tripi
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Ternana will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
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Market12 Jul 2027
The phone has started ringing about Stefano Pettinari again, and this time the name on the line is Arezzo. Ternana are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Federico Romeo and Ternana agree another 4 years.
Squad12 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Ternana 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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Romeo, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Angelo Ndrecka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Udinese 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hellas Verona waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ternana is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ternana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sassuolo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad5 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
The town asked, and Ternana paid $660.0K
Carlo Evangelista was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $660.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stefano Pettinari commits to Ternana for another 2 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
César Falletti 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 targets5 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Arezzo have kept their man, and Ternana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
Neftchi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ternana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market28 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marco Pagliari is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
Marcelo Orellana 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Pianese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tommaso Vitali. The answer from Ternana has not changed — yet.
The dugout28 Jun 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Too much change too quickly at Ternana
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
33 appearances at Lumezzane and the goals keep coming. Ternana are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market21 Jun 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Lecce wanted more than $4.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
The dugout21 Jun 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
$220.0K settles it between the clubs for Carlo Bassorizzi
Pescara have accepted the money. What Ternana do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Everything agreed with Ospitaletto, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Ernesto Ballabile is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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Steady
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Edgaras Dubickas out for 96 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ternana people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$4.3M on the table at Lecce. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$370.0K settles it between the clubs for Gioele Bosi
Lazio have accepted the money. What Ternana do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
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Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Ternana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Ternana spend $560.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $560.0K for Filippo Galvagno, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Campobasso will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Francesco Parisi has pre-agreed a move to Ternana, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Jun 2027
César Falletti 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Marcelo Orellana 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Trakai will make the call about Edgaras Dubickas this week. Ternana have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Jun 2027
This league is too small for Walter Busse
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Ternana will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
The dugout7 Jun 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Ternana bring in an old head
Walter Busse is 40 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Open for business: Ternana enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
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Squad31 May 2027
111 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad31 May 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
Loan watch31 May 2027
33 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad31 May 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abdulrahman Talal and Ternana agree another 3 years.
The dugout31 May 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.
The dugout31 May 2027
Angelo Ndrecka knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Angelo Ndrecka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The terraces31 May 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Francesco D'Alterio
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Ternana would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
The dugout31 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Squad24 May 2027
A fracture rules Edgaras Dubickas out for 120 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 May 2027
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Squad24 May 2027
César Falletti 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 dugout24 May 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
Angelo Ndrecka 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 Ternana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Marco Pagliari keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ternana say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout24 May 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Loan watch24 May 2027
36 appearances at Foggia and the goals keep coming. Ternana are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout24 May 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Brian Hollembach plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Squad17 May 2027
127 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout17 May 2027
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Squad17 May 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Casarini 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.
Market17 May 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Francesco Bertoni is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 May 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Salvatore Fiorentino 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.
The dugout17 May 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.
The dugout17 May 2027
Juan Casarini 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 Ternana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout17 May 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Edgaras Dubickas has written the date down.
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Squad10 May 2027
134 days out for Edgaras Dubickas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
César Falletti 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 dugout10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcelo Orellana, and the manager let it.
Squad10 May 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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Juan Casarini 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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Steady
Squad3 May 2027
A fracture rules Edgaras Dubickas out for 142 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad3 May 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Ternana will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad3 May 2027
A move Lucas Ricciotti would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lucas Ricciotti is living that version at Ternana, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Ternana know it.
Loan watch3 May 2027
32 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Mattia Proietti
“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.
Market3 May 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout3 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ternana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 May 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ternana know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
Juan Casarini breaks a bone — 16 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Apr 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Ternana
César Falletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Apr 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ternana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Marco Pagliari keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ternana say nothing, which says plenty.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
The goals keep arriving from Federico Romeo’s exile
3 goals in 34 games at Foggia — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ternana updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Juan Casarini out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match17 Apr 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Ternana scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Match19 Apr 2027
Full time on the season at Ternana
Position 8 on 54 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
The dugout19 Apr 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
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Squad19 Apr 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
30 days out for Juan Casarini after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match10 Apr 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Ternana scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Apr 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Sambenedettese made Ternana work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces12 Apr 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Juan Casarini
“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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Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Juan Casarini out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Apr 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Apr 2027
4 matches without a win for Ternana
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ternana are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market5 Apr 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bruno Martella has his answer from Ternana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Brian Hollembach will call it something else in private.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A mark of 7.35, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Squad29 Mar 2027
Juan Casarini breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market29 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Alex Mancini at 18 — 7.66
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alex Mancini did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ternana can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Ternana know now that the thought has arrived.
Match27 Mar 2027
Alex Mancini scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Campobasso, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessio Maestrelli, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Squad22 Mar 2027
Juan Casarini breaks a bone — 54 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match20 Mar 2027
Chastening afternoon for Ternana
A 0‑3 beating by Carpi was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
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Squad22 Mar 2027
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Bruno Martella
“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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Nobody left the Ternana 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 dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Jacopo Vignali left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Brian Hollembach
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.
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Squad15 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Juan Casarini out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Mar 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Bruno Martella 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match13 Mar 2027
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Stefano Pettinari had Ternana level again within 3 minutes, and Ravenna never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
9 combined actions and 7.60. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filippo Tripi, and the manager let it.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 2‑2 draw with Ravenna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Market8 Mar 2027
Juan Casarini 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” César Falletti and Ternana agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
Marco Pagliari 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Ternana get the job done against Forli
A 2‑0 win over Forli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
No place for Juan Casarini on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Ternana pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for César Falletti
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. César Falletti has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ternana have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Jacopo Vignali, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Upbeat
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.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ternana are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Ternana
Marco Pagliari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Juan Casarini wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Ternana now know that too.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match27 Feb 2027
Pontedera made Ternana work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Ternana
César Falletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Martella 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Marcelo Orellana scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ascoli, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout22 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
The game went through Marco Pagliari — 6.92
Marked 6.92 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Chances created: 10. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Squad22 Feb 2027
One booking too many, and Kevin Bonifazi sits out. Ternana lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
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Upbeat
Market15 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Feb 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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 targets15 Feb 2027
Ternana asked and Pescara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match13 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Ternana against Gubbio
0‑1 to Gubbio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Filippo Tripi
“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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jacopo Vignali to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
The goals keep arriving from Alfredo Donnarumma’s exile
9 goals in 24 games at Lumezzane — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Ternana updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Upbeat
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Age has not caught César Falletti yet — 8.00
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ternana make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ternana have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
César Falletti 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ternana make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match6 Feb 2027
Three points for Ternana, 3‑1 the final word against Bra in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ternana asked and Inter said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout8 Feb 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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Upbeat
Market1 Feb 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ternana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Age has not caught César Falletti yet — 8.23
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Ternana close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad1 Feb 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Martella 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Ternana asked and Sassuolo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match30 Jan 2027
A 2‑1 win over Pianese, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Upbeat
Market25 Jan 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Juve Stabia had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Match23 Jan 2027
3‑0, and Alexis Ferrante took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ternana tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market25 Jan 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.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.48, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ternana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad25 Jan 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Jan 2027
Ternana make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad25 Jan 2027
César Falletti 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.
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Crisis
Market18 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The deal with Catanzaro is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match16 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Ternana against Perugia
0‑2 to Perugia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout18 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jacopo Vignali after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Inter 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.
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Steady
Market11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Catanzaro come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ternana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Ternana and Carrarese have settled on $61.0K. 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 targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with AlbinoLeffe is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
César Falletti 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Martella 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Ternana asked and Inter said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Ternana supporters have found a favourite in Gaël Lafont
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gaël Lafont has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match9 Jan 2027
Arezzo made Ternana work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Crisis
Market4 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 Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Ternana will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A muscle injury and 16 days out for César Falletti
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Ternana will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ternana are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad4 Jan 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Ternana against Livorno
0‑2 to Livorno, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Jacopo Vignali left the room before anybody could ask which.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Ternana have made the call to Inter. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Casarini, and the manager let it.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 102% of everything Ternana earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Brian Hollembach
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
18 days out for Angelo Ndrecka after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Vis Pesaro, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Marcelo Orellana takes the afternoon — 9.04
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marcelo Orellana provided it, and the 9.04 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Martella 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Alexis Ferrante was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.65. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Hollembach, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Dec 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
César Falletti 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑3 to Sambenedettese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Hollembach 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Marcelo Orellana at his very best
Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ternana.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jacopo Vignali after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stefano Pettinari, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ternana had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Brian Hollembach dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match5 Dec 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ternana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ternana
César Falletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Juan Casarini
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Campobasso, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 98% of everything Ternana earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jacopo Vignali to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Brian Hollembach
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brian Hollembach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brian Hollembach, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcelo Orellana. 1‑0 against Carpi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.94, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Angelo Ndrecka out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ternana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
César Falletti 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market16 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alessio Maestrelli has his answer from Ternana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mattia Proietti
“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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Angelo Ndrecka out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcelo Orellana. 1‑0 against Forli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Jacopo Vignali, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ternana
César Falletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Ternana
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ternana can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Hollembach 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.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 98% of everything Ternana earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Brian Hollembach
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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Ternana
0‑3 against Ascoli, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad26 Oct 2026
César Falletti 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.
Squad26 Oct 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Martella, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Alexis Ferrante did the work nobody counts — 6.72
9 combined actions and 6.72. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Doors closed at Ternana
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
10 new faces, and Ternana 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Juan Casarini
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The dugout
Stefano Pettinari asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
86 days out for Angelo Ndrecka after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ternana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
César Falletti 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Nahrudnyy, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Brian Hollembach 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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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Angelo Ndrecka out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ternana will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Oct 2026
Bra will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Ternana were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Gaël Lafont at 20 — 7.83
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gaël Lafont did not need any: 7.83, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
César Falletti, 33, rolls back the years — 8.27
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.27 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Ternana right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad12 Oct 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Massimo Turella is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brian Hollembach 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Ternana supporters have found a favourite in Gaël Lafont
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Gaël Lafont has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and César Falletti takes the afternoon — 8.21
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. César Falletti provided it, and the 8.21 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Ternana, 3‑1 the final word against Pianese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Oct 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Vladislav Nahrudnyy has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Ternana
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Biagio Meccariello, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Marco Pagliari
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Marco Pagliari has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ternana have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Ternana
1‑2 against Foggia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bruno Martella 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marco Garetto. 2‑1 against Guidonia Montecelio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Marco Pagliari has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout28 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jacopo Vignali on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brian Hollembach 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
Angelo Ndrecka 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market21 Sep 2026
Ternana have let the market know Bruno Martella can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jacopo Vignali chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
Ruggero Frosinini 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Ternana 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexis Ferrante trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jacopo Vignali after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Arezzo defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Perugia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ternana can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 0 out at Ternana
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cruzeiro keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Ternana
César Falletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bruno Martella 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Livorno, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bruno Martella has his answer from Ternana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Martella, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Jacopo Vignali to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Zé Lucas is in the works
Ternana have made the call to Cruzeiro. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Looking ahead31 Aug 2026
Livorno next, and one man in the Ternana dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ternana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Ternana
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. César Falletti 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Ternana asked and Sassuolo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
Angelo Ndrecka 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ignazio Ricci 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Benfica 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Ternana turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Gaël Lafont in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Ternana are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Steady
Squad17 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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bruno Martella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ternana asked and River Plate said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Juan Casarini 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. Ternana know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
NK Domzale 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Ternana
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sassuolo keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Garetto and Ternana agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ternana
César Falletti 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giacomo Toscano 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pietro Verdi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mirko Guidi 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcello Orlando 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.
The dugout10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hellas Verona 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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” César Falletti and Ternana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ternana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and César Falletti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 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.
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 Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.