Marked for Danilo Treffiletti
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match18 Dec 2027
10 matches without a win for Monza
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Monza are no longer polite ones.
Squad20 Dec 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Monza
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kostas Koulierakis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match18 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Monza against Udinese
1‑3 to Udinese, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad20 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Monza
Kevin Martins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eduardo Miranda, and the manager let it.
Player ratings20 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch20 Dec 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Monza, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eduardo Miranda
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Monza lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Álex Valle 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Monza
Luca Ravanelli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorenzo Lucchesi, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
8 new faces, and Monza are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Andrea Colpani asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AC Milan in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luca Ravanelli signs something — a contract at Monza or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad27 Sep 2027
84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Monza lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match22 Sep 2027
Monza bow out of the cup
AlbinoLeffe go through and Monza go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Monza
Kostas Koulierakis 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Danilo Treffiletti is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match25 Sep 2027
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
The terraces27 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Gustavo Varela has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match25 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Idrissa Touré. 1‑0 against Frosinone, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Idrissa Touré was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Ciurria, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
Noel Törnqvist damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Monza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A one-man rearguard from Demba Thiam
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Monza
Dany Mota and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Danilo Treffiletti is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
15 clean sheets from 31 appearances at Padova. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Al-Faisaly to sit and watch. I want to come back to Monza and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Monza
Position 20 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match28 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Monza
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Monza are no longer polite ones.
Match28 Nov 2026
Monza are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Monza
Dany Mota and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cyril Ngonge is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match28 Nov 2026
Cagliari left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Match28 Nov 2026
No time for Cagliari to settle
The goal that put Cagliari ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Monza equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.