Marked for Pasquale Piscitelli
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad29 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eduardo Miranda
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Monza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces29 Nov 2027
Supporters organise against the Monza board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match27 Nov 2027
Chastening afternoon for Monza
A 1‑4 beating by Bologna was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match29 Nov 2027
Every point is an argument now for Monza
Position 20 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match27 Nov 2027
The wait goes on for Monza
7 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kostas Koulierakis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market29 Nov 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lorenzo Lucchesi has his answer from Monza; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad29 Nov 2027
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Monza
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Manga Foé Ondoa
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad16 Aug 2027
127 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Monza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Monza
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Monza is running low.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostas Koulierakis 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Milan have kept their man, and Monza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Monza, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market16 Aug 2027
Thun are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Monza will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Fiorentina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Monza
Rosindo Zanni 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Monza know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match23 Sep 2026
Cup progress for Monza
A 5‑2 win over Sampdoria, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Patrick Ciurria out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Monza will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Pasquale Piscitelli, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.30, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Cyril Ngonge 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.
Match23 Sep 2026
Pedro Obiang among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Pedro Obiang on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Monza and Sampdoria.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Colpani 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Monza supporters have found a favourite in Jordan Longhi
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jordan Longhi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.