The Fiorentina Chronicle
Match3 Apr 2027
7 matches without a win for Fiorentina
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Fiorentina are no longer polite ones.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Marin Pongračić: 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.” Fiorentina have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Apr 2027
Dodo has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Fiorentina can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market5 Apr 2027
Bassidy Sanogo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fiorentina they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Fiorentina
Pote 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 ratings5 Apr 2027
Fabiano Parisi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Apr 2027
Fiorentina rescue it on 90 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. Como had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Christ Inao Oulaï
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Christ Inao Oulaï has come out of that comparison in the side, and Fiorentina have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match3 Apr 2027
Gabriele Bertolini rescues a point for Fiorentina
It needed Gabriele Bertolini to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Como, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Davide Atzeni
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Pote