The Cittadella Chronicle
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mirko Antonucci signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mirko Antonucci and Cittadella agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cittadella
Francesco Amatucci and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Cittadella and Grégoire Defrel
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Mirko Antonucci's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Cittadella are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alessio Vita 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.
In brief
- Market Tommaso Ferronato leaves for nothing
- Market Andrea Ceccarelli leaves for nothing