Matteo Barbini

Central Defender - Genoa
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The Genoa Post

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

An offer of $9.0M for Alessandro Seghetti

Genoa have gone to Padova with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market9 Jul 2029

Terms done: Adam Žulevič is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Parma waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Genoa is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market9 Jul 2029

Matteo Barbini 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 Genoa can pretend not to have heard.

Market9 Jul 2029

Only the photograph left for Mattia Proietti

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mattia Proietti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Genoa the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market9 Jul 2029

Banfield join the queue for Seydou Fini

Add another name to the list: Banfield have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Seydou Fini. The answer from Genoa has not changed — yet.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Nicola Leali stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicola Leali and Genoa agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Genoa

Mikael Egill Ellertsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad9 Jul 2029

The step up is real for Matteo Barbini

At 22 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.

The dugout9 Jul 2029

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The Genoa Post

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match11 Dec 2027

No end in sight to Genoa's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Genoa has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Mikael Egill Ellertsson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

Gabriele Moncini keeps the receipts

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

Squad13 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Genoa

Leo Østigård and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Words at Genoa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stephan El Shaarawy 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.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Ninety minutes of M'Bala Nzola at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Genoa.

Match11 Dec 2027

Genoa rescue it on 90 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. Pisa had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Matteo Barbini signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matteo Barbini commits to Genoa for another 4 years.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Stefano Sabelli

“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.

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