The Palermo Courier
Squad31 Jan 2028
The knee: Alessandro Rinella out for 55 days
55 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Palermo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match31 Jan 2028
Palermo are in real trouble now
Position 20, 10 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.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Mario Hermoso will not be coming to Palermo
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AS Roma is saying, and nobody at Palermo is enjoying the guessing.
Market31 Jan 2028
Terms done: Alfred Gomis is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fiorentina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Palermo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Palermo rebuffed over Mario Hermoso
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Roma have kept their man, and Palermo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Jan 2028
Ignacio Cuffaro 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 Palermo can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Jan 2028
Matteo Casarotto is a Palermo player
The fee is $1.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Virtus Entella drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad31 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Palermo
Mattia Perin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market31 Jan 2028
Marco Stigliano is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Palermo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.