Marked for Simone Bonetti
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Reggiana can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“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.
Market2 Jul 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market2 Jul 2029
Add another name to the list: Pisa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Gioele Conte. The answer from Reggiana has not changed — yet.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alessandro Micai and Reggiana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“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.
Market2 Jul 2029
Everyone has stopped pretending: Cavese will make the call about Daniel Golovatic this week. Reggiana have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market2 Jul 2029
Reggiana bring in an old head
Alessandro Dalmazzi is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom18 Jun 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Reggiana
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market18 Jun 2029
Juventus come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Reggiana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jun 2029
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Reggiana are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad18 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Matteo Enza 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.
Market18 Jun 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tobías Reinhart signs something — a contract at Reggiana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The terraces18 Jun 2029
Supporters make their feelings known about Matteo Rover
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Reggiana would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Market18 Jun 2029
Reggiana have let the market know Simone Bonetti can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Jun 2029
Lazio come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Reggiana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reggiana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad11 Jun 2029
Matteo Rover 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.
Market11 Jun 2029
Simone Bonetti is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Reggiana has been clear about where Simone Bonetti stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad11 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Gioele Conte
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 May 2029
Simone Bonetti: 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.” Reggiana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market28 May 2029
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Golovatic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Reggiana the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 May 2029
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Sandro Di Stefano has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market8 Jan 2029
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Reggiana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reggiana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Jan 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match6 Jan 2029
A 2‑1 win over Modena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Natan Girma is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.37 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market8 Jan 2029
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Reggiana will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Nov 2028
A one-man rearguard from Matteo Enza
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Reggiana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings13 Nov 2028
A performance of 8.89 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Matteo Rover
5 goals and a season average of 7.49 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings13 Nov 2028
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings13 Nov 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Nov 2028
It needed Matteo Rover to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Cremonese, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market13 Nov 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gioele Conte’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Aug 2028
Matteo Rover 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
As if he never left: Paolo Ferrigno returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Paolo Ferrigno is a Reggiana player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market21 Aug 2028
As if he never left: Fabio Bruno returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Fabio Bruno is a Reggiana player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market21 Aug 2028
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Federico Ceccarelli is a Reggiana player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market21 Aug 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Welinton Júnior commits to Reggiana for another 1 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Jul 2028
So close: Desley Ubbink’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Union Brescia moved on, Desley Ubbink reports back to Reggiana, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Matteo Rover 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market5 Jun 2028
Desley Ubbink has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Reggiana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Libutti
“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.
Loan watch5 Jun 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Reggiana, and 16 appearances in 48 say he has earned the hearing.
Market5 Jun 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andrea Seculin has his answer from Reggiana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
$1.6M taken back off the Reggiana table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
The terraces5 Jun 2028
Supporters make their feelings known about Andrea Papetti
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Reggiana would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Market5 Jun 2028
The name of Matteo Maggio keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Reggiana say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom22 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Reggiana boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market22 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Reggiana is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 May 2028
92 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad22 May 2028
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
Andrea Papetti 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 Reggiana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad1 May 2028
19 goals and a season average of 7.46. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market1 May 2028
Andrea Papetti wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Reggiana hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 May 2028
Matteo Rover 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.
Squad1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Tobías Reinhart
“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.
Player ratings1 May 2028
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings1 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad1 May 2028
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alessandro Micai knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Apr 2028
Giacomo Poluzzi 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Solini, and the manager let it.
Market24 Apr 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Cristiano Bani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 30 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ravenna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market28 Feb 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Giacomo Poluzzi 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.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.64 on the card, and the Ravenna support went home talking about one name.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Matteo Solini will call it something else in private.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Matteo Motti 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.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
4.93 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Match26 Feb 2028
No goals between Ravenna and Bra
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Bra will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Feb 2028
8 matches without a win for Reggiana
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Reggiana are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Andrea Seculin: 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.” Reggiana have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market14 Feb 2028
Desley Ubbink has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Reggiana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A season average of 7.33 with 12 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Mario Sampirisi
“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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Dec 2027
At 21, Vasilije Adžić is already the best thing here
An average of 7.81 in a first team he is several years too young for. Reggiana have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad27 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Cedric Gondo
“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.
Loan watch27 Dec 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Reggiana, and 8 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings27 Dec 2027
Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match25 Dec 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Udinese will be the happier side with the point.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Nov 2027
At 21, Vasilije Adžić is already the best thing here
An average of 7.65 in a first team he is several years too young for. Reggiana have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad29 Nov 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match27 Nov 2027
It finished 3‑1, and it was Welinton Júnior’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Reggiana.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Marked 9.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.81, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Libutti
“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.
Loan watch29 Nov 2027
“I watch every Reggiana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ravenna runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Nov 2027
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match30 Oct 2027
Whatever happens, Ravenna do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ravenna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
A performance of 8.96 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Marked 8.53 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pierluca Luciani and Ravenna agree another 4 years.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Luca Falbo
“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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Ravenna and Bra take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.45 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Reggiana know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match30 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for Reggiana
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad1 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
A performance of 9.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Viviani, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.47, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I watch every Reggiana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ravenna runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
At 21, Vasilije Adžić is already the best thing here
An average of 7.22 in a first team he is several years too young for. Reggiana have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad4 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alessandro Micai commits to Reggiana for another 2 years.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Marked 9.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Reggiana, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match2 Oct 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Tobías Reinhart
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad13 Sep 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Ravenna
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Stefano Okaka 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match11 Sep 2027
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
91 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market6 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ravenna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 8.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ravenna, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Match4 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad6 Sep 2027
Matteo Rover 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 Reggiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 9.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over Modena, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 8.60 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Ravenna to sit and watch. I want to come back to Reggiana and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Micai, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Reggiana will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.