Fabio Crudele

Striker - Free Agent
13 Dec 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Fabio Crudele

47 Edition

The Campobasso Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Campobasso spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Gabriel Guri

Campobasso and Sassuolo have settled on $240.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

Catanzaro tell Campobasso: Ignacio Bessone is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Maksim Minkov is in the works

Campobasso have made the call to Lecce. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

The Gabriele Corbo talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Campobasso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

A door opens for Mohamed Bob

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Campobasso Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Spezia take the points off Campobasso

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Simone Leonardi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simone Leonardi, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lorenzo Coccia

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Fabio Crudele out for 32 days

The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Fabio Crudele, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

8 new faces, and Campobasso 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Marco Valentini to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

When it matters, Christian Celesia 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.

Market

Gabriele Corbo linked with a move away

The name of Gabriele Corbo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Campobasso say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Davide Agazzi

Nobody at Campobasso is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

6 Edition

The Campobasso Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Campobasso close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Campobasso rebuffed over Gianluca Saddi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cagliari have kept their man, and Campobasso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Campobasso have started building around Riccardo Fogliata

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Looking ahead

Francesco Maisto goes back to face Perugia

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Francesco Maisto’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Campobasso needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

The Lorenzo Coccia talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Campobasso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Looking ahead

Looking ahead: Perugia at home

A side in position 4 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.

In brief