The Modena Sentinel
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Franco Israel
Modena asked and Torino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Vizela come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Modena did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Simone Russini arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Simone Russini has, at Modena, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Paulo Azzi signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paulo Azzi commits to Modena for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Modena
Paulo Azzi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Modena has picked up the phone to Paulo Azzi
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Modena are still strangers to each other
10 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
Fabio Gerli knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Modena, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Modena and Stênio
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Modena, another week without a signature from Stênio.
In brief
- Market Michele Pezzolato is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout Pedro Mendes keeps his manager's vote