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The Spezia Gazette

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Feb 2028

The knee: Andrea Rapallini out for 18 days

18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Spezia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Spezia until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market7 Feb 2028

Máximo Perrone wants more than Spezia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Leandro Chichizola signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Chichizola commits to Spezia for another 2 years.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Spezia

Máximo Perrone 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

A move Vincenzo Ferrara 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. Vincenzo Ferrara is living that version at Spezia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match5 Feb 2028

Spezia make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

The terraces7 Feb 2028

The crowd has taken to Pietro Candelari

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match5 Feb 2028

Spezia see off Hellas Verona

Three points for Spezia, 1‑0 the final word against Hellas Verona in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

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The Spezia Gazette

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Jan 2028

Andrea Rapallini damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.

Boardroom31 Jan 2028

Pressure builds in the Spezia boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market31 Jan 2028

Máximo Perrone is a Spezia player

The fee is $14.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Como drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market31 Jan 2028

Spezia get their man

The chase for Lorenzo Pellegrini ended with $7.6M changing hands and AS Roma out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market31 Jan 2028

Pontedera come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

The paperwork begins on Matteo Basti

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Spezia have done the hard part with Latina, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad31 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Spezia

Petko Hristov 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 targets31 Jan 2028

Door shut on Matías Laurino

Spezia asked and Audace Cerignola 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 dugout31 Jan 2028

Pietro Candelari 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.

In brief