The Reggiana Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Andrija Novaković out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Reggiana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Paolo Rozzio says Reggiana went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Reggiana
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Mikki van Sas turns down Reggiana
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Wycombe Wanderers keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Reggiana
Matteo Rover was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The window shuts on the Elia Petrelli deal
Reggiana ran out of time with Forli. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Marco Valer would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marco Valer is living that version at Reggiana, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Emiliano Mayola falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Reggiana agree a free transfer for Alessandro Pagliari
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Diogo Fernandes
- The dugout No hiding place for Umberto Germano
- Match Late, late show earns Reggiana a point