Giuseppe Positano

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Monopoli U20
21 Mar 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Giuseppe Positano

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The Monopoli Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Boavista join the queue for Salvatore Longo

Add another name to the list: Boavista have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Salvatore Longo. The answer from Monopoli has not changed — yet.

Squad

Cristian Battocchio in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monopoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Denival 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

Philip Yeboah knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Monopoli, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The terraces

The stands have heard the Salvatore Longo talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Monopoli would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

Squad

Somebody is after Emanuele Scipioni’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Emanuele Scipioni suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Monopoli have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

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The Monopoli Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Alessandro Vinciguerra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Lorenzo Bordo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Monopoli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Edoardo Piana in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Monopoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

255% of the income goes out in wages at Monopoli

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Potenza take the points off Monopoli

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

Player ratings

The one thing Salvatore Longo could not do

Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief