Gabriele Lucca

Defensive Midfielder - VPS
22 May 2027
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Marked for Gabriele Lucca

29 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market15 Feb 2027

Tijjani Mohammed agrees terms with KTP

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around VPS people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market15 Feb 2027

VPS say no — this time

The offer from FF Jaro for Joonas Vahtera 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

A falling-out at VPS

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

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

Door shut on Osku Maukonen

VPS asked and FC Lahti said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

VPS ask about Anssi Suhonen

A loan enquiry to OB: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

VPS try to borrow Adrian Skogmar

Malmo FF have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

When it matters, Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Jonathan Muzinga 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Gabriele Lucca is a square peg at VPS

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The VPS Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom8 Feb 2027

Oliveirense come asking about Oliver Kamara

VPS did not want this conversation and are having it anyway. A manager wanted elsewhere is a manager whose next contract talk just became more expensive.

Market8 Feb 2027

KuPS join the queue for Simon van Duivenbooden

Add another name to the list: KuPS have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Simon van Duivenbooden. The answer from VPS has not changed — yet.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Simon van Duivenbooden 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 VPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A move Kalel Ferreira would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kalel Ferreira is living that version at VPS, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Home is on Will Wilson'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; VPS are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

Door shut on José Müller

VPS asked and FC Lahti said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad8 Feb 2027

A row about effort at VPS

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joonas Vahtera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets8 Feb 2027

VPS ask about Otto Tiitinen

A loan enquiry to Ilves: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market8 Feb 2027

VPS sign Gabriele Lucca, one for the future

Gabriele Lucca is 20, and VPS have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief