Alejandro Vera

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The Empoli Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces28 Dec 2026

The mood at Empoli has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Stiven Shpendi scores twice — 9.02

Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Joseph Ceesay runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Empoli

Andrea Ghion 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

Stiven Shpendi sends Empoli past Südtirol

It finished 2‑0, and it was Stiven Shpendi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Empoli.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Duccio Degli Innocenti 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.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Roberto Marchetti, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

Jacopo Seghetti’s loan is measured in nothing happening

9 clean sheets from 18 appearances at Livorno. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Empoli counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Empoli now.

In brief

Back issues
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The Empoli Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Empoli

7 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Empoli

Martin Cedidla 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

Joseph Ceesay was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Joseph Ceesay 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Empoli against Carrarese

0‑1 to Carrarese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Duccio Degli Innocenti 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.

Boardroom12 Oct 2026

Doors closed at Empoli

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Empoli are still strangers to each other

16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Roberto Marchetti answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief