Marked for Iván Centurión
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Pisa have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A brace, and Mattéo Tramoni takes the afternoon — 8.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mattéo Tramoni provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Emanuele Rao: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pisa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jens Odgaard in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match16 Jan 2027
Udinese made Pisa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
21 appearances away from home and 13 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jonathan Rodríguez 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Pisa can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Iván Centurión
“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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pisa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Pisa can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pisa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Jan 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 Pisa know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Léris 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio Caracciolo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings4 Jan 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.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 unbeaten for Pisa
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Pisa did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Nicolás Ramírez 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 dugout16 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.
The dugout16 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Parma runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pisa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Jens Odgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Pisa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Pisa caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Cagliari scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Jens Odgaard to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Cagliari, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout19 Oct 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.” Gregorio Calabrese chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Nicolás Ramírez
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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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pisa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
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 Pisa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Pisa had all but put away. Lecce will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout21 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Pisa share the spoils with Lecce
A 1‑1 draw with Lecce leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Juventus next, and one man in the Pisa 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
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pisa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Pisa
Jens Odgaard 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mattéo Tramoni’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pisa.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jonathan Rodríguez 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.10 — 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Centurión, and the manager let it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Pisa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Parma runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Hellas Verona this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ascoli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Pisa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Stefano Moreo 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Jens Odgaard beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Pisa
11 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.
The dugout31 Aug 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.” Gregorio Calabrese chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Nicolás Ramírez 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Jens Odgaard joins from Bologna in a deal worth $17.1M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Pisa have gone to Padova with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Pisa
Stefano Moreo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fiorentina have kept their man, and Pisa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Pisa spend $17.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $17.1M for Jens Odgaard, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Pisa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Léris 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.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Arturo Calabresi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Pisa needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Pisa would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Como, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Bologna this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Filip Stojilković and Pisa agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pisa
Stefano Moreo 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
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pisa hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paolo Conti 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Antonio Battaglia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.