The Cremonese Gazette
Market20 Aug 2029
Only the photograph left for Marco Nasti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marco Nasti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cremonese the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Real improvement from Stefano Costa at Cremonese
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stefano Costa is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A falling-out at Cremonese
Tommaso Barbieri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market20 Aug 2029
Enrico Minucelli is a Cremonese player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market20 Aug 2029
Harry Watts is a Cremonese player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market20 Aug 2029
As if he never left: Riccardo Lo Re returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Riccardo Lo Re is a Cremonese player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A row about effort at Cremonese
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastiano Luperto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Enrico Minucelli gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Enrico Minucelli has just signed for Cremonese, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
A promise honoured for Stefano Costa
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Cremonese told Stefano Costa something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Kian Fitz-Jim is in the works
- The dugout No hiding place for Carlo Evangelista
- The dugout Gonzalo Dorado gets picked when it counts