Matteo Malafronte

Defensive Midfielder - Ascoli
28 Aug 2027
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Marked for Matteo Malafronte

56 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market23 Aug 2027

Terms done: Rok Bržan is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and JS Saoura waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ascoli is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Matteo Malafronte is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Federico Gattoni 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 Ascoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Giovanni Corradini has improved at 24, 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.

Boardroom23 Aug 2027

Graduation day at Ascoli

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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words at Ascoli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Molina 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Romano Giordano steps up from the Ascoli academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Romano Giordano 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

One of our own: Manuel Brambilla joins the Ascoli first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Manuel Brambilla is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market23 Aug 2027

Giorgio Raimondi steps up from the Ascoli academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giorgio Raimondi 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.

In brief

  • Boardroom A promise the Ascoli board did not keep
  • The dugout No hiding place for Samuele Damiani
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Ascoli
Back issues
45 Edition

The Ascoli Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match7 Jun 2027

Ascoli are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 64 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market7 Jun 2027

Emanuele Ndoj puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ascoli, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Matteo Malafronte keeps the receipts

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

Squad7 Jun 2027

At 20, Matteo Malafronte is already the best thing here

An average of 6.59 in a first team he is several years too young for. Ascoli have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Fee done, terms next for Diego Ftacla

Ascoli and Forli have settled on $16.0K. 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 targets7 Jun 2027

An offer of $1.3M for Samuel Pugliese

Ascoli have gone to Picerno with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market7 Jun 2027

Gabriele Gori attracts admirers

The name of Gabriele Gori has come up in conversations Ascoli were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Ascoli

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

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Ascoli

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

In brief