Benja Cremaschi

Defensive Midfielder - Parma
1 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Benja Cremaschi

11 Edition

The Parma Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Real improvement from Benja Cremaschi at Parma

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Benja Cremaschi is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Romeo Vermant

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Parma told Romeo Vermant something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Thomás De Martis 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 Parma this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

No place for Christian Ordoñez in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Christian Ordoñez has his answer from Parma; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mandela Keita

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mandela Keita, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Diego Carlos 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.

Market

The Emanuele Valeri question follows Parma around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Emanuele Valeri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead

Franco Carboni goes back to face Monza

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Franco Carboni’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Parma needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Loan watch

Oliver Sørensen keeps scoring at Bloemfontein Celtic

8 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Parma Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Parma

Beaten 0‑3 by Como, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

7 saves: Edoardo Corvi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Aldo Florenzi due for a Parma medical

Everything agreed with Cosenza, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Marco Sala

Parma asked and Avellino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Torres come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Parma did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Parma walk away from Andrija Novaković

$1.4M was the most the club would pay and Reggiana were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Boardroom

2 academy graduates step up at Parma

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

Parma promote Matteo Fiorentino from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matteo Fiorentino has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Parma promote Cristiano Di Stefano from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cristiano Di Stefano has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief