Nicolò Troiani

Defensive Midfielder - Salernitana
4 Feb 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Nicolò Troiani

124 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Salernitana make home a hard place to visit

17 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Ismail Achik

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

Squad

Nicolò Troiani 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Salernitana keep their word to Antonio Donnarumma

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Boardroom

Wages eat 85% of everything Salernitana earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match

Point won or two lost for Salernitana?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Benevento? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Market

The Ismail Achik talk will not go away

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

In brief

Back issues
118 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

The run at home goes on for Salernitana

14 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

Christian Petraglia, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.03

A mark of 8.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Nobody wants to play Salernitana right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Nicolò Troiani 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Christian Petraglia

At 20 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.

Match

Christian Petraglia sends Salernitana past Potenza

It finished 1‑0, and it was Christian Petraglia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Salernitana.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Salernitana pick somebody else ahead of Luca Simeoni

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

117 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Nicolò Troiani 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Cristian Giménez

“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.

In brief

116 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Salernitana make home a hard place to visit

13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Matteo Lovato 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luca Villa 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Antonio Donnarumma

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

Match

Ismail Achik the difference as Salernitana beat Foggia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ismail Achik. 1‑0 against Foggia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ismail Achik

Marked 8.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

111 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Match

Salernitana make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Nicolò Troiani 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Antonio Donnarumma

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Paolo Ghiglione

7.61, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Salernitana had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Salernitana pick somebody else ahead of Luca Simeoni

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

No place for Juan Ignacio Molina in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Ignacio Molina has his answer from Salernitana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Match

Salernitana draw a blank against Sorrento

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sorrento defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

110 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Ismail Achik runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Armando Anastasio keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Villa 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Salernitana against Monopoli

0‑1 to Monopoli, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Market

No place for Ettore Quirini in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ettore Quirini has his answer from Salernitana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

The Galo Capomaggio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Galo Capomaggio signs something — a contract at Salernitana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

The window shut and Ivan Varone is still in the building

Salernitana spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

106 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nicolò Troiani is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Matteo Lovato 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.

Squad

Kees de Boer has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Boardroom

Salernitana release $467.7K for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Market

Luca Simeoni brings the grey hairs Salernitana lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Market

The Galo Capomaggio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Galo Capomaggio signs something — a contract at Salernitana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Talks stall between Salernitana and Filippo Berra

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

Vladimir Golemić slips out the side door

No fee and no fanfare: Vladimir Golemić’s time at Salernitana ends with a handshake, and Bologna collect a player for the price of his wages. Somebody will call it shrewd; time will name who.

In brief

  • Boardroom The Salernitana production line keeps running
  • Boardroom The Salernitana board put their names to it
103 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Real improvement from Cristian Giménez at Salernitana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cristian Giménez is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A late step up for Antonio Pio Iervolino

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

In brief

102 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Real improvement from Nicolò Troiani at Salernitana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolò Troiani is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Matteo Lovato 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.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Salernitana lose Loris Davide Capodieci

30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

The Galo Capomaggio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Galo Capomaggio signs something — a contract at Salernitana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Salernitana put Filippo Berra up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Filippo Berra may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

97 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A move Dante Benítez 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. Dante Benítez is living that version at Salernitana, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Only the photograph left for Vladimir Golemić

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vladimir Golemić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Salernitana the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Nicolò Troiani 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

$467.7K on the table at Salernitana

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Market

Salernitana sign Loris Davide Capodieci, one for the future

Loris Davide Capodieci is 20, and Salernitana 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

96 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Facundo Lescano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Nicolò Troiani 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.

In brief

92 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten Salernitana

The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

The wait goes on for Salernitana

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Matteo Lovato 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Salernitana

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Luca Villa

A mark of 7.34, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Salernitana pick somebody else ahead of Stefano Amadio

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Antonio Pio Iervolino knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonio Pio Iervolino trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

85 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vladimir Golemić has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Salernitana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Salernitana

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Matteo Lovato 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Stefano Amadio left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Stefano Amadio will call it something else in private.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Facundo Lescano

7.81, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Salernitana had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match

Facundo Lescano rescues a point for Salernitana

It needed Facundo Lescano to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Potenza, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market

The Ismail Achik talk will not go away

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

In brief

82 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Christian De Amicis has agreed to leave Salernitana for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Nicolò Troiani 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.

Squad

Salernitana pick somebody else ahead of Antonio Donnarumma

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

Ismail Achik takes the honours

Marked 7.24 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Salernitana had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Antonio Donnarumma knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Salernitana, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Match

No goals between Salernitana and Trapani

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Trapani will be the happier side with the point.

Market

The Galo Capomaggio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Galo Capomaggio signs something — a contract at Salernitana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Player ratings

Christian Petraglia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

78 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Gabriele Barzagli damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

10 matches without a win for Salernitana

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Salernitana are no longer polite ones.

Market

Facundo Lescano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Matteo Lovato 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.

Squad

Words at Salernitana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Galo Capomaggio 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 ratings

Ismail Achik in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Match

Honours even between Salernitana and Sorrento

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

The Galo Capomaggio story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Galo Capomaggio signs something — a contract at Salernitana or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

74 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Squad

Matteo Lovato 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Luca Villa 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Squad

Antonio Donnarumma dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings

Ismail Achik runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

69 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Facundo Lescano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Salernitana

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Nicolò Troiani 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Antonio Donnarumma

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

Player ratings

Paolo Ghiglione takes the honours

Marked 7.35 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Salernitana had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Salernitana keep their word to Armando Anastasio

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Player ratings

Ismail Achik runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Salernitana draw a blank against Crotone

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Crotone defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

67 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wants to play Salernitana right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Matteo Lovato 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.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Match

Salernitana get the job done against Audace Cerignola

A 1‑0 win over Audace Cerignola, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

No hiding place for Nicolò Troiani

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

Player ratings

Facundo Lescano was the difference for Salernitana

Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Boardroom

Salernitana release $467.7K for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Matteo Lovato is still paying for one afternoon at Salernitana

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

61 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for Salernitana

1‑2 against Guidonia Montecelio, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Christian Zawieschitzky keeps the receipts

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

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Christian Zawieschitzky

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

5 matches without a win for Salernitana

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Salernitana are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Paolo Ghiglione 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Salernitana

Nicolò Troiani 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.

Player ratings

Ismail Achik was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match

Salernitana and Giugliano take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roberto Inglese

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

60 Edition

The Salernitana Herald

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nicolò Troiani gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nicolò Troiani has just signed for Salernitana, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Vladimir Golemić keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Real improvement from Nicolò Troiani at Salernitana

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolò Troiani is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Salernitana may not be able to give Facundo Lescano what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Lescano wants continental football; whether Salernitana can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Matteo Lovato 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 Salernitana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ismail Achik

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief