The day passed with structure rather than event. A light gym session in the spare room — thirty minutes of mobility work and resistance bands, nothing that would compromise Friday's training. Meal prep that took most of the early afternoon — chicken, rice, vegetables in three containers that went into the fridge in a row. He reviewed Genoa's tactical footage on his laptop for ninety minutes in the afternoon, pausing on sequences showing their defensive block and where the lines compressed and where space opened on the outside channels when pressure was applied centrally.
His phone sat on the counter on silent through most of it.
At just after six it vibrated once with a group message notification and he unlocked it. The message was from Gasperini and had been sent to the full squad group.
Training tomorrow 10 AM. Sharp. Focus is top four. Nothing else. See you there.
