The Fiorentina Chronicle
Match10 May 2032
Fiorentina finish in position 5
70 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Squad10 May 2032
A falling-out at Fiorentina
Moise Kean and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 May 2032
Luca Ranieri 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.
Market10 May 2032
Franco Carboni 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.
Squad10 May 2032
Tomas Baković signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tomas Baković commits to Fiorentina for another 4 years.
Player ratings10 May 2032
Franko Kovačević takes the honours
Marked 7.96 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fiorentina had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout10 May 2032
Marco Brescianini 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.
Player ratings10 May 2032
Zito Luvumbo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout10 May 2032
When it matters, Nicolò Fagioli 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.
In brief
- Match Fiorentina share the spoils with Torino
- The dugout Riccardo Basile on the point
- The dugout The form table has caught David De Gea