Marked for Facundo Coelli
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kevin Mbabu 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Coelli
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Matheus Dos Santos 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Gastón Pérez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Juve Stabia 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Juve Stabia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Pietro Boer’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Adrián Maidana knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Juve Stabia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Davide Bettella has written the date down.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A season on the outside for Flynn Macnack
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Juve Stabia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Juve Stabia's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Juve Stabia has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Gustavo Corti 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sebastiano Bianco chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Catanzaro will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bari in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kevin Mbabu 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 Juve Stabia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Juve Stabia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo Corti 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Pietro Boer 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Davide Bettella’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Juve Stabia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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 Davide Bettella has written the date down.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Fabio Maistro keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Juve Stabia say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Juve Stabia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nobody writes a headline about a tutor. Nobody has to be told, either, what happens to a signing who spends two years being the man nobody can talk to at lunch.