Marked for Davide Mancini
From our football correspondent
Steady
The dugout14 Dec 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
7.38, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Arezzo had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Enrico Corsini chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Dec 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Carrarese defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mauro Coppolaro’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Arezzo needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market14 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrea Cagnano’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Three points for Arezzo, 2‑1 the final word against Empoli in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 112% of the Arezzo income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Serra, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Arezzo had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Cesena in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Gianluca Di Chiara keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Arezzo say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattia Concetti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Arezzo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
5 new faces, and Arezzo are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolò Gigli, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A test against the best for Arezzo
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Pisa.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Alessandro Arena’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Arezzo needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
5 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Arezzo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Arezzo will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
5 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.