The Sampdoria Sentinel
Match23 Sep 2026
Valerio Cinti sends Sampdoria through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Valerio Cinti obliged against Monza. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Sampdoria.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
What a way to start for Federico Valenza — 7.30
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.30 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Valerio Cinti, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.84
A mark of 7.84 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Lorenzo Insigne, 35, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Max Bilać
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lorenzo Insigne reaches 500 appearances
500 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Sampdoria
Fabio Depaoli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
One of their own: Valerio Cinti
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Sep 2026
Sampdoria find a way past Catanzaro
Catanzaro made Sampdoria work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad Words at Sampdoria training over how hard people work
- Player ratings Alessandro Di Pardo in the eights
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Oliver Abildgaard