Lorenzo Mosca

Goalkeeper - Mantova U20
17 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lorenzo Mosca

46 Edition

The Mantova Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Anísio Cabral turns down Mantova

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Maxim Borisko

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

The dugout

Nicolò Buso 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.

Squad

Diego Cinetti stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Diego Cinetti and Mantova agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Mantova

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Wieser was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Nobody is scoring past Luca Sonzogni at Ospitaletto

9 shut-outs in 30 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Luca Sonzogni has been having a lot of them.

The dugout

Ettore Gliozzi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ettore Gliozzi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Still no ink between Mantova and Tommaso Del Lungo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Mantova, another week without a signature from Tommaso Del Lungo.

The terraces

The Simone Trimboli rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Mantova would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

In brief

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The Mantova Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Vanja Vlahović’s goal not enough for Mantova

Vanja Vlahović scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Hellas Verona, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

Francesco Bardi 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.

The dugout

Silvio Riva answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

A falling-out at Mantova

Yassin Banna and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Loan watch

8 clean sheets on loan for Luca Sonzogni

22 appearances at Ospitaletto and the goals have stopped going in. Mantova lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Squad

The weekend belonged to Simone Trimboli

Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Ettore Gliozzi

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Market

The Simone Trimboli story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Simone Trimboli signs something — a contract at Mantova or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Tiago Gonçalves remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Mantova would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief