The Sampdoria Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Alex Ferrari 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 Sampdoria can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Sampdoria
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Sampdoria
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mattia Viti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sampdoria rebuffed over Gustavo Barros
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Villefranche have kept their man, and Sampdoria go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ignazio Pasquali steps up from the Sampdoria academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ignazio Pasquali has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Gabriele Di Giovannantonio is in the works
Sampdoria have made the call to Latina. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Sampdoria turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Filippo Delli Carri goes back to face Padova
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Filippo Delli Carri’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Sampdoria needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
An away day at Padova next for Sampdoria
They sit in position 10 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
In brief
- Squad Lorenzo Venuti is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Welcome back, Simone Rossello