Marked for Jesús Rodríguez
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Lucas Da Cunha, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mauro Vigorito reports back to Como with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Como training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Da Cunha 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Como come up short against Genoa
Genoa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Novara have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thomas Leggio. The answer from Como has not changed — yet.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jeff Ekhator 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 Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Como will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Nico Paz takes the afternoon — 7.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nico Paz provided it, and the 7.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
Como say no — this time
The offer from Parma for Mauro Vigorito 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Como heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas Da Cunha 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Martin Baturina has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mattia Caldara, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nico Paz. 2‑0 against Juventus, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Como say no — this time
The offer from Sorrento for Thomas Leggio 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Napoli pay $480.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nico Paz runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Maeson King 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 Como this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Álex Valle
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jesús Rodríguez 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Como are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.20. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alberto Moreno
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Como lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Ivan Smolčić goes
Torino paid $10.8M and Como took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nico Paz, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.79
A mark of 7.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Como say no — this time
The offer from Crotone for Alex Amadio 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Como can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Como
Luis Milla was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Máximo Perrone 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Como
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.