The Monza Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Monza
Matteo Pessina 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Monza do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match3 Oct 2026
Valentin Antov sends Monza past Bari
It finished 2‑1, and it was Valentin Antov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Monza.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 931% of everything Monza 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Andrea Colpani in the eights
A performance of 8.94 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Demba Thiam
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Patrick Ciurria
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Valentin Antov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paulo Azzi 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
- Squad Monza lose Luca Rossini
- Player ratings One of those days for Dany Mota
- Boardroom Monza were not finished after all