Marked for Jacobo Ramón
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match19 Oct 2027
A European night to remember for PSV
2‑0 against AGF, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match24 Oct 2027
No mercy from PSV
Utrecht will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. PSV were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Ivan Perišić, 38, rolls back the years — 7.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.90 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match24 Oct 2027
PSV make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now PSV have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Jerdy Schouten and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
PSV supporters have found a favourite in Iván Fresneda
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Iván Fresneda has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match24 Oct 2027
Nobody wins at PSV
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match24 Oct 2027
Utrecht blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Utrecht tried to reorganise, PSV did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
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Match16 Oct 2027
No mercy from PSV
Zwolle will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. PSV were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Armando Obispo: 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.” PSV have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Francisco Trincão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Francisco Trincão at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at PSV.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Jacobo Ramón was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.20. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Roda to sit and watch. I want to come back to PSV and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergiño Dest, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match14 Sep 2027
PSV do the business in Europe
2‑2. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and PSV came through the finding-out well against Galatasaray.
Market20 Sep 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at PSV
Rasmus Højlund 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.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Marvin Schwäbe
“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.
Match18 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for PSV against AZ
0‑2 to AZ, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Yarek Gąsiorowski 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Ryan Flamingo did the work nobody counts — 6.87
10 combined actions and 6.87. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Dennis Man left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Dennis Man will call it something else in private.
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The dugout13 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSV may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match11 Sep 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Heracles, and it could have been more.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.64, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. PSV will try again when the window opens; La Equidad may not be selling by then.
Market13 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Jacobo Ramón 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 PSV hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at PSV
Mao Hosoya and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Yarek Gąsiorowski 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marc Oliver Kempf
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Como lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Aug 2027
29 days out for Alberto Dossena after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Como will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market2 Aug 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Como
Trevoh Chalobah 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Jayden Addai 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 Como hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Aug 2027
He is 21, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Market2 Aug 2027
The Iván Azón conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Bari will make the call about Iván Azón this week. Como have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market2 Aug 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Jacobo Ramón moves on to PSV with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Jayden Addai
“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.
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Uneasy
Market2 Aug 2027
PSV pay Como $21.4M for a proper upgrade
Como did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $21.4M for Jacobo Ramón, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSV may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jacobo Ramón gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jacobo Ramón has just signed for PSV, and for once the answer mattered.
Match2 Aug 2027
PSV refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 64 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market2 Aug 2027
Guus Til 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 PSV hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at PSV
Rasmus Højlund and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at PSV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yarek Gąsiorowski 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
No place for Jacobo Ramón in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation PSV are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
“I watch every PSV game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Helmond Sport runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marc Oliver Kempf
136 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Como lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Jul 2027
Jacobo Ramón hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Como can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Jul 2027
Jacobo Ramón has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Como they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Como
Trevoh Chalobah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Juventus have kept their man, and Como go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Stefan Posch 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.
The dugout19 Jul 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.
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Steady
Market5 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Como have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The dugout5 Jul 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Álvaro Morata 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 Como hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Álvaro Morata and Como agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Como
Trevoh Chalobah 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
He is 21, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Market5 Jul 2027
36 games and 1 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
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Steady
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
The goals keep arriving from Álvaro Morata’s exile
34 goals in 42 games at Leganés — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
29 appearances away from home and 28 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Adrian Lahdo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sporting da Covilhã keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Como
Trevoh Chalobah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market28 Jun 2027
Napoli are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Como will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Jayden Addai 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Sarmiento: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Market21 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Como did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Jun 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Venezia have kept their man, and Como go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Como
Leandro Ilari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A loan move for Lautaro Bordón is in the works
Como have made the call to Sporting da Covilhã. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Kaiki has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Como 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jesús Rodríguez signs something — a contract at Como or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Jesús Rodríguez has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Como that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Joaquín Zappacosta has written the date down.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Como have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jun 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 Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Gabriele Platto is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stade Brestois have kept their man, and Como go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Jacobo Ramón 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Jayden Addai 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to Venezia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jun 2027
Luis Milla has left for Atalanta in a $3.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market7 Jun 2027
Jesús Rodríguez 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 Como hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The deal with Zamora is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Matteo Papaccioli is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
He is 21, he is averaging 7.02, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Como
Iván Azón and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Como asked and Benevento said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jayden Addai 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.
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Uneasy
Loan watch3 May 2027
37 appearances at Leganés and the goals keep coming. Como are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Loan watch3 May 2027
The goals keep arriving from Tommaso Fumagalli’s exile
28 goals in 29 games at Reggiana — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market3 May 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Como can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad3 May 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Como know it.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Maxence Caqueret 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 Como.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Como training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jayden Addai 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.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Jayden Addai
“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.
Squad3 May 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Adrian Lahdo
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Adrian Lahdo has come out of that comparison in the side, and Como have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match1 May 2027
Como and Bologna take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Upbeat
Loan watch8 Mar 2027
29 appearances at Leganés and the goals keep coming. Como are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Match6 Mar 2027
3‑0, and Moise Kean took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Como tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Jesús Rodríguez, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66
A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Como
Trevoh Chalobah 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Como know it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Como told Jacobo Ramón something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Mar 2027
Samuele Ricci breaks a bone — 18 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
The goals keep arriving from Álvaro Morata’s exile
28 goals in 28 games at Leganés — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad1 Mar 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 Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
The dugout1 Mar 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Como can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Jayden Addai 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 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 Como, and 14 appearances in 27 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
Nico Paz has left for Olympique Lyonnais in a $23.5M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market11 Jan 2027
Lazio come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Como did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
The goals keep arriving from Tommaso Fumagalli’s exile
22 goals in 17 games at Reggiana — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Loan watch11 Jan 2027
20 appearances at Leganés and the goals keep coming. Como are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play Como right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Dani Ángel
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match9 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Como
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Market11 Jan 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Yan Couto beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Tommaso Fumagalli’s exile
17 goals in 12 games at Reggiana — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Market7 Dec 2026
Jacobo Ramón 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 Como hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
14 appearances away from home and 14 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match5 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Como against Juventus
0‑1 to Juventus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Como who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Trevoh Chalobah
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Trevoh Chalobah has come out of that comparison in the side, and Como have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
7 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Como get the job done against Napoli
A 1‑0 win over Napoli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Como
Kaiki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Leandro De Luca on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Trevoh Chalobah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lecce in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Kaiki 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 Kaiki is on it.
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Uneasy
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Como
A 2‑1 win over Union Brescia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match4 Nov 2026
Como win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Union Brescia will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Adrian Lahdo at 18 — 8.40
The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Adrian Lahdo did not need any: 8.40, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Como heard it as anything else.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Tommaso Fumagalli’s exile
14 goals in 9 games at Reggiana — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
Como supporters have found a favourite in Jayden Addai
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jayden Addai has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marc Oliver Kempf, and the manager let it.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
The goals keep arriving from Álvaro Morata’s exile
12 goals in 11 games at Leganés — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Como updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thomas Boccia is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Como
Kaiki 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Como are still strangers to each other
6 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Nico Paz question follows Como around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nico Paz’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Atalanta next, and one man in the Como dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
6 appearances at Leganés and the goals keep coming. Como are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Jayden Addai 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Jacobo Ramón
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Como would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Como will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matteo Papaccioli is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A month that belonged to Jacobo Ramón
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Como who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Match3 Oct 2026
The run is over for Como
4 matches without defeat, and then Cagliari. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad5 Oct 2026
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
The pass was always on for Yan Couto
Chances created: 11. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Moise Kean could have had three
14 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Leandro De Luca after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Triumph
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Como will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Jacobo Ramón, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.86
A mark of 7.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match26 Sep 2026
Como cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gabriele Platto 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Como supporters have found a favourite in Jacobo Ramón
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacobo Ramón has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Fiorentina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Moise Kean runs at them all day
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Como
Kaiki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Leandro De Luca could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Como will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Jayden Addai to AZ has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Como with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Como close the window on a squad of their own making
6 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Como
Trevoh Chalobah and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Como asked and Cesena said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Sep 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Como have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Alex Amadio, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Como
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.