The Alcione Milano Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hugo Constant damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Marco Melchionda wants to come home
“I did not go to Altamura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Alcione Milano and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Daniele Ciappellano in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alcione Milano count the cost of losing Giuseppe De Carli
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market12 Oct 2026
Talks stall between Alcione Milano and Filippo Pirola
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alcione Milano are still strangers to each other
9 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Emerick Lopes
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Filippo Bertolotti gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filippo Bertolotti is on it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
A reunion for Filippo Pirola
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Renate in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- The dugout Gabriele Candido asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Renate
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Simone Palombi