Matteo Scanzi

Central Midfielder - St. Gallen
17 Oct 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Matteo Scanzi

157 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nicolás Domínguez 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 Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bristol City lose Rúben Dantas Fernandes

64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

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Matteo Scanzi 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.

In brief

Back issues
149 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Jonathan Howard has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bristol City can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Matteo Scanzi 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 Bristol City can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nicolás Domínguez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolás Domínguez and Bristol City agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tomi Horvat 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 Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Rob Dickie

“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.

Market

No place for Filippo Pellacani in the plan

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

Market

The Nicolás Domínguez question follows Bristol City around

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

Boardroom

$4.4M taken back off the Bristol City table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Squad

José Carlos Lazo 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 Bristol City that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

144 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Bristol City boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Matteo Scanzi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bristol City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Nicolás Domínguez 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 Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from José Carlos Lazo

Marked 9.82 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Sam Greenwood is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.45 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

Bristol City get the job done against Milton Keynes Dons

A 3‑1 win over Milton Keynes Dons, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sam Greenwood

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Jason Knight in the eights

A performance of 8.55 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Bristol City lose Zac King-Phillips

44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

131 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Bristol City run riot against Charlton Athletic

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Marcus Bettinelli puts it in writing

“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 Bristol City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Max Bird 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 Bristol City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Sam Greenwood

Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Jason Knight is carrying Bristol City

9 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Tomi Horvat in the eights

A performance of 9.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nicolás Domínguez in the eights

A performance of 9.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Sékou Gassama

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

Squad

Illan Meslier lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

In brief

129 Edition

The Bristol City Chronicle

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Rúben Dantas Fernandes puts it in writing

“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 Bristol City, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Bristol City

Nicolás Domínguez 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 ratings

Mark Sykes runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bristol City against Leeds United

2‑3 to Leeds United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Home is on Rúben Dantas Fernandes's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Bristol City are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

Business is business: Saliou Sané goes

Ipswich Town paid $71.0K and Bristol City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sam Greenwood

“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.

Player ratings

One of those days for José Carlos Lazo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market

Matteo Scanzi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Bristol City has been clear about where Matteo Scanzi stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief