The Como Post
Squad14 Feb 2028
Matthias Braunöder says Como went back on their word
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Jesús Rodríguez 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 Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tasos Douvikas 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Assane Diao
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Assane Diao, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Nico Paz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Como against Atalanta
0‑2 to Atalanta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces14 Feb 2028
Everybody has an opinion about Jean Butez
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market14 Feb 2028
The Assane Diao question follows Como around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Assane Diao’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
An afternoon Álvaro Morata will want back
Marked 5.25. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Mattia Liberali’s exile
- Player ratings An afternoon Ignace Van Der Brempt will want back
- Loan watch Alessandro Gabrielloni keeps scoring at Burnley