Marked for Facundo Bailó
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad25 Jan 2027
Fernando Pasquale damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
No thanks: Tim Haksteeg rejects the move
Reggiana had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Feyenoord, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Reggiana
Francesco Vicari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Reggiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolás Álvarez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Augsburg have kept their man, and Reggiana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Leon Šipoš again, and this time the name on the line is Tondela. Reggiana are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match23 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Reggiana against Cesena
0‑1 to Cesena, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Matteo Rover beats them one at a time
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 dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Facundo Bailó
“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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Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
Fernando Pasquale damages knee ligaments — 131 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 131 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.
Market4 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
Reggiana are in real trouble now
Position 18, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reggiana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Pressure builds in the Reggiana boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
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 Reggiana know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Reggiana
Michele Castagnetti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Matteo Enza 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michele Castagnetti, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
146 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Reggiana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reggiana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market21 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 Reggiana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Reggiana
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Reggiana
Francesco Vicari 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 ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Dec 2026
Cedric Gondo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Venezia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Reggiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Federico Pereyra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
50 goals in the shirt for Cedric Gondo
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
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Steady
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.7M sale of Andrija Novaković
He is going to Lecce, the club has $1.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Reggiana 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lecce pay $1.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Matteo Rover 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Reggiana
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 Reggiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Álvarez 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Danilo Quaranta has come up in conversations Reggiana were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruggero Santoro 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The formation has left Facundo Bailó behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Reggiana will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.