Luigi Caputo

Left Midfielder - Udinese
20 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Luigi Caputo

5 Edition

The Udinese Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

$12.8M settles it between the clubs for Pontus Almqvist

Parma have accepted the money. What Udinese do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Antonio Grande

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Udinese lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Udinese rebuffed over Matteo Francesconi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cesena have kept their man, and Udinese go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Udinese plan ahead with Giacomo Peretti from Obod

The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Giacomo Peretti comes from Obod for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.

Squad

A falling-out at Udinese

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

Match

AS Roma take the points off Udinese

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Lennon Miller signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lennon Miller commits to Udinese for another 5 years.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Luca Mariani to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Udinese pick somebody else ahead of Luigi Caputo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Udinese Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Udinese make their move for Talles Magno

$16.0M on the table at New York City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

PAOK come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Udinese did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Mërgim Vojvoda stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mërgim Vojvoda and Udinese agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Udinese

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maduka Okoye

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

One of our own: Fabio Zorzi joins the Udinese first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fabio Zorzi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Giovanni Vignali joins the Udinese first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Giovanni Vignali is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Udinese promote Antonio Baldini from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Antonio Baldini has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout

Mërgim Vojvoda 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 Mërgim Vojvoda trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief