From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ternana
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan Majer 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 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
109% 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.88 on the card, and the Ternana support went home talking about one name.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Match26 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Match19 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ternana
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Žan Majer 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Simone D'Uffizi at his very best
Marked 8.88. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ternana.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Simone D'Uffizi 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
No hiding place for Žan Majer
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Žan Majer, and the manager let it.
Match19 Dec 2026
Vis Pesaro made Ternana work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Dec 2026
10 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
17 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Marco Garetto decided nobody was going anywhere. Sambenedettese had no time left to answer.
Match12 Dec 2026
10 unbeaten for Ternana
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Ternana did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Three points for Ternana, 2‑1 the final word against Sambenedettese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.91 — 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ternana told Marco Garetto something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match7 Dec 2026
Ternana are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 24 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Ternana's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ternana has to find a result from somewhere.
Match5 Dec 2026
9 unbeaten for Ternana
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Ternana did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
An order from above at Ternana: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Pagliari 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.
Squad7 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Dario Bongiorno damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ternana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Ternana's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ternana has to find a result from somewhere.
Match28 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ternana
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Žan Majer 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
111% 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Campobasso leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dario Bongiorno damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Ternana
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ternana
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dario Bongiorno
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ternana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 unbeaten for Ternana
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Ternana did not have in the autumn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marco Pagliari 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
Julen Azkue gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match14 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dario Bongiorno
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ternana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match9 Nov 2026
Ternana up to position 3
20 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ternana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad9 Nov 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 terraces9 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Simone D'Uffizi 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Enrico Brignola, and the manager let it.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.45 on the card, and the Ternana support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Žan Majer
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dario Bongiorno
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ternana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothée Kolodziejczak 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 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
111% 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Pontedera came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Alexis Ferrante keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ternana say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A mark of 5.74 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Market26 Oct 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.
Match24 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.
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match24 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Ternana. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Ascoli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.13 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stefano Pettinari. 1‑0 against Gubbio, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad19 Oct 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marco Capuano
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad19 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Riccardo Lodovici is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Francesco D'Alterio has improved at 24, 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marco Pagliari 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match10 Oct 2026
Ternana get the job done against Bra
A 1‑0 win over Bra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
7.71, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Ternana had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
11 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ed McJannet is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pianese left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
151% 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.
Squad5 Oct 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 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 ratings5 Oct 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 5.31. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Ternana out
Out, 2‑3 to Foggia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Marcelo Orellana scored in the 88th minute, Guidonia Montecelio had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Ternana took the lot.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 9 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Timothée Kolodziejczak, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marcelo Orellana was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.42. 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.
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: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timothée Kolodziejczak 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 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Ternana?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Perugia? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
No time for Arezzo to settle
The goal that put Arezzo ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Ternana equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Garetto, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.95, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Arezzo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marco Capuano
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexis Ferrante
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Ternana, 1‑0 the final word against Livorno in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marcelo Orellana was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.52. 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.
Squad7 Sep 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 ratings7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Panico was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Capuano
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 5.78, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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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
Graduation day at Ternana
5 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
69 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicolò Alberti 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vincenzo D'Amico 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luciano Benedetti 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Ternana training over how hard people work
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Squad
Tempers go at Ternana
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Boardroom
No investment in the facilities at Ternana
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Squad
Žan Majer is training like a man with a point to make
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $290.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Pro Vercelli drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Panico 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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
Marco Pagliari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alexis Ferrante is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ternana has been clear about where Alexis Ferrante stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Angelo Ndrecka's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marco Garetto 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 Marco Garetto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market10 Aug 2026
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
Squad3 Aug 2026
0 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marco Capuano and Ternana agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ternana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.