Giuliano

Central Midfielder - Cesena
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Giuliano

6 Edition

The Cesena Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sassuolo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cesena did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Jonathan Klinsmann keeps Cesena in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Michele Castagnetti 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Cesena

Giovanni Zaro 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.

Match

Spezia take the points off Cesena

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

No hiding place for Giuliano

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giuliano, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Gaetano Castrovilli

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

Boardroom

Cesena counting the cost

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

Player ratings

Riccardo Ciervo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Cesena Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cesena turn down Pineto for Filippo Galvagno

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Andrea Ciofi 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 Cesena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Marco Olivieri 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Cesena Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cesena say no — this time

The offer from Lazio for Cristian Shpendi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Cristian Shpendi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Shpendi and Cesena agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Giovanni Zaro 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 Cesena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Cesena training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michele Castagnetti 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Jonathan Klinsmann

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonathan Klinsmann, and the manager let it.

Market

Nobody at Cesena has picked up the phone to Massimiliano Mangraviti

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

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