The Mantova Herald
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
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 targets14 Jun 2027
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 dugout14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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 watch14 Jun 2027
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 dugout14 Jun 2027
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.
Market14 Jun 2027
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 terraces14 Jun 2027
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
- The dugout Stefano Cella has been promised minutes
- The dugout Lorenzo Mosca does not fit this one
- Market The Francesco Ruocco story refuses to die