Massimo Pessina

Goalkeeper - Bologna U20
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Marked for Massimo Pessina

53 Edition

The Bologna Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

Bologna put Teodoro Pellegrino on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Adomas Buikus breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market2 Aug 2027

Bologna say no — this time

The offer from Juve Stabia for Benjamín Domínguez 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Riccardo Orsolini has been here 8 seasons

325 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market2 Aug 2027

Dimitar Papazov 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 The request is on a desk at Bologna, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The Bologna board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Market2 Aug 2027

Nicolò Cambiaghi 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Bologna

Łukasz Skorupski 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tommaso Ebone 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.

In brief

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The Bologna Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Jun 2027

Antonino Gallo is a Bologna player

The fee is $8.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lecce drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market14 Jun 2027

Lorenzo Ignacchiti is a Bologna player

The fee is $3.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Empoli drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market14 Jun 2027

Bologna turn down Forli for Massimo Pessina

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Francesco Castaldo 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Riccardo Orsolini 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 Bologna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market14 Jun 2027

Juan Miranda raises the bar for Bologna

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bologna heard it as anything else.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words at Bologna training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Remo Freuler 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Remo Freuler is still paying for one afternoon at Bologna

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.

Loan watch14 Jun 2027

5 goals on loan for Jesper Karlsson

25 appearances at Utrecht and the goals keep coming. Bologna are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief