The Mantova Herald
Market21 Jun 2027
Terms done: David Wieser is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Carpi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mantova is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market21 Jun 2027
Mantova say no — this time
The offer from Virtus Verona for Diego Cinetti was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Salko Hamzić turns down Mantova
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Red Bull Salzburg keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Eman Košpo at Mantova
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Eman Košpo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Stefano Cella stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stefano Cella and Mantova agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Mantova
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vanja Vlahović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Francesco Ruocco 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 Mantova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
When it matters, David Wieser plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market21 Jun 2027
The Simone Trimboli question follows Mantova around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Simone Trimboli’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Rareş Ilie
- The dugout David Wieser knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ettore Gliozzi