The Monopoli Gazette
Match14 Jun 2027
Monopoli sink to position 14
32 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Giuseppe D'Auria out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Monopoli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Jun 2027
Dijanis Dudić puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Monopoli, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Jun 2027
Monopoli turn down Sevlievo for Dijanis Dudić
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Monopoli
Salvatore Longo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Home is on Sulaiman Oyewale's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Monopoli are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
When it matters, Sulaiman Oyewale plays
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.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Antony Angileri 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 Antony Angileri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Raffaele Pucino is doing the arithmetic
The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Monopoli says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.
In brief
- Market Davide Bove placed on the list
- Loan watch Simone Calvano's loan at Crotone nearly up