Máximo García

Central Defender - Alcione Milano
14 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Máximo García

62 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Alcione Milano

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Alcione Milano are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Fabio Morselli: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Alcione Milano have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Alcione Milano

Giacomo Giacomone and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mattia Muroni

“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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 126% of the Alcione Milano income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad

Máximo García wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Alcione Milano can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Leonardo Mendicino

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Alcione Milano told Leonardo Mendicino something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Tjaš Begić

A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Leonardo Mendicino

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Leonardo Mendicino has come out of that comparison in the side, and Alcione Milano have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mattia Muroni breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Terms done: Marco Melchionda is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Dolomiti Bellunesi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Alcione Milano is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

Gabriele Falasca turns down Alcione Milano

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Torino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gabriele Bracaglia

Alcione Milano asked and Frosinone said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Matías Ormart 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Alcione Milano and Luca Zamparo are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Máximo García wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Alcione Milano know it.

Transfer targets

Alcione Milano try to borrow Stefano Mazzini

Carrarese have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Marin Šverko is in the works

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

In brief

46 Edition

The Alcione Milano Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

78 days out for Mattia Muroni after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Alcione Milano will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Alcione Milano say no — this time

The offer from Ascoli for Jonathan Pitou 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.

Market

Daniele Ciappellano hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Alcione Milano can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Alcione Milano rebuffed over Giacomo Faticanti

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

Squad

Matías Ormart 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 Alcione Milano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Esteban Rueda gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Loan watch

Luca Zamparo keeps scoring at Alcione Milano

29 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Daniele Borra is in the works

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

Transfer targets

Alcione Milano ask about Martin Palumbo

A loan enquiry to Avellino: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief