Marked for Antonio Scaravilli
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Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
10 matches without a win for Giugliano
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Giugliano are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Marco Caldore 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Giuliano Laezza falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad18 Jan 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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Latina will be the happier side with the point.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Jérémie Broh keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Giugliano say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The plan did not have a place for Luciano Peluso
Nobody at Giugliano is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Uneasy
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Giugliano
8 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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Marco Caldore 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 ratings4 Jan 2027
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Match2 Jan 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Siracusa defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Nobody at Giugliano will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market4 Jan 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ibourahima Baldé may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Riccardo Improta trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Reggiana moved on, Mario Prezioso reports back to Giugliano, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Giuliano Laezza 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Giugliano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luigi D'Avino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Giugliano 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.