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Uneasy
Match4 Sep 2027
A 2-0 win over Casarano, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joe Boggan and Altamura agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Tobia Mogentale
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Altamura, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market6 Sep 2027
The Matteo Zazza talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Altamura know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marco Crimi is not saying it is over
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 37 with 18 appearances behind him, and Altamura have to plan for both answers.
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Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Altamura
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Altamura
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Altamura are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michele Grande commits to Altamura for another 4 years.
Match28 Aug 2027
1-3 to Cosenza, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match26 Jul 2027
Altamura sink to position 18
31 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Altamura is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Altamura, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Giuseppe Simone keeps the shirt for now, at Altamura's convenience rather than his own.
Market26 Jul 2027
The Matteo Zazza talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Altamura know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
Nicholas Fantoni: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Altamura have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Giuseppe Simone asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
Giuseppe Nicolao: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Altamura have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Matteo Zazza
“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Altamura signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Altamura, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Ibrahima Mbaye keeps the shirt for now, at Altamura's convenience rather than his own.
Market12 Jul 2027
No fee and no drama: Niccolò Sotgia has signed at Altamura, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Uneasy
Match31 May 2027
Altamura sink to position 18
31 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad31 May 2027
“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.
Squad31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Giuseppe Simone
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2027
“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.
Squad24 May 2027
“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.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Ibrahima Mbaye keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Altamura say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match3 May 2027
Altamura are in real trouble now
Position 18, 30 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad3 May 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Altamura pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match1 May 2027
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Federico Iannuzzi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Giuseppe Simone
“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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Siracusa made Altamura work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
Potenza left with the points after a 1-3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Ibrahima Mbaye
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Antonino Viola knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Altamura pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 2-2 draw with Foggia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Match20 Feb 2027
10 matches without a win for Altamura
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Altamura are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
95% of the income goes out in wages at Altamura
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Altamura's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Altamura has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Nov 2026
0-2 to Audace Cerignola, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Altamura's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Altamura has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Nicola Dipinto, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match3 Oct 2026
Cavese left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
1-2 to Cosenza, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Altamura have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mattia Florio
“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.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Altamura signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pietro Baraldi is 17, and Altamura have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at Altamura signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nicola Dipinto commits to Altamura for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 61 days on the sidelines for Michele Grande, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.