The Bologna Herald
Market24 Dec 2029
Nicolò Cambiaghi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bologna can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Dec 2029
Only the photograph left for Tommaso Cancellotti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tommaso Cancellotti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bologna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Dec 2029
Nicholas Bonfanti has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Bologna can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Words exchanged at Bologna
Federico Bernardeschi 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.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Riccardo Orsolini 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.
Match22 Dec 2029
A bad afternoon for Bologna against Sassuolo
2‑3 to Sassuolo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings24 Dec 2029
Nicolò Cambiaghi in the eights
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout24 Dec 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
Squad24 Dec 2029
Lewis Ferguson suspended
One booking too many, and Lewis Ferguson sits out. Bologna lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Tiago Libares
- Market The Riccardo Orsolini talk will not go away
- The dugout No hiding place for Kahraba