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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Parma
6 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Simone Lontani is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Parma training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Enrico Delprato 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Parma
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match26 Sep 2026
AC Milan left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Zion Suzuki
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
No time for AC Milan to settle
The goal that put AC Milan ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Parma equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Parma
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Parma are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
A goal and an assist for Bryan González — 7.74
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.74 beside his name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Filippo Rinaldi is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Sep 2026
6 goals as Parma and Udinese go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Parma and Udinese, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bryan González 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrián Bernabé
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Pontus Almqvist to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Udinese, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Edoardo Corvi has left for Bologna in a $5.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parma
Mateo Pellegrino 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Enrico Delprato 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match5 Sep 2026
No time for AS Roma to settle
The goal that put AS Roma ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Parma equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Lazio will make the call about Oliver Sørensen this week. Parma have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oliver Sørensen, and the manager let it.