Gabriele Baldi

Goalkeeper - AlbinoLeffe
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gabriele Baldi

10 Edition

The AlbinoLeffe Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AlbinoLeffe run riot against Ospitaletto

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Adulai Embaló takes the afternoon — 8.29

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Adulai Embaló provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Nicolò Gamba is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A falling-out at AlbinoLeffe

Gabriele Baldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Wages eat 143% of everything AlbinoLeffe earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Andrea Mandelli at his very best

Marked 8.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AlbinoLeffe.

The dugout

Mattia Angeloni gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at AlbinoLeffe

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriele Boloca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Adulai Embaló named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Adulai Embaló is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The AlbinoLeffe Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

AlbinoLeffe taken apart

1‑4 to Dolomiti Bellunesi, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

Riccardo Baroni goes up and wins it — 5.40

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 5.40 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

Adrian Przyborek will not be coming to AlbinoLeffe

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Lazio is saying, and nobody at AlbinoLeffe is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

AlbinoLeffe rebuffed over Giacomo Faticanti

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventus have kept their man, and AlbinoLeffe go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Inquest at AlbinoLeffe

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

The dugout

Gerardo Pugliese answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Riccardo Baroni is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Player ratings

Michele Ambrosini beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Joachim Kayi Sanda is in the works

AlbinoLeffe have made the call to Southampton. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief