Marked for Alesandro Comita
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Feb 2027
Gubbio are in real trouble now
Position 15, 18 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match6 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Gubbio against Latina
1‑2 to Latina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Feb 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Achille Serra to a room that had heard them before.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Alessandro Di Nunzio has come out of that comparison in the side, and Gubbio have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gubbio have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match11 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Gubbio
Position 14 and 15 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Gubbio asked and Avellino said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Gabriele Costa
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Como: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Como: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Bologna: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Match9 Jan 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Spezia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
The mood at Gubbio has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad4 Jan 2027
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 9.46, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Alesandro Comita: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gubbio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Picerno have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tommaso Ghirardello. The answer from Gubbio has not changed — yet.
Match2 Jan 2027
A 3‑1 win over Livorno, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Gubbio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Giovanni Di Noia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Ahmetaj, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Gubbio
7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Pineto were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Gubbio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Di Noia 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matteo Trevisan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match12 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Andrea La Mantia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gubbio.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Marson and Gubbio agree another 4 years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A defender's afternoon for Lorenzo Podda
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Giacomo Rosaia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.63 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gubbio had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Achille Serra could afford to be generous.
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Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alessandro Ahmetaj, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Gubbio
Orazio Pazienza 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Gabriele Costa 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 Gubbio, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Gubbio man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Daniel Bahia was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alesandro Comita is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
They sit in position 2 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tommaso Ghirardello is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Francesco Zallu and Gubbio agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Giovanni Di Noia 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Carraro, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Alesandro Comita has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Gubbio will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lorenzo Podda has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Gubbio that is a harder question to answer.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Tommaso Ghirardello
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Gubbio would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Tancredi Vella 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 Tancredi Vella trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up at home: Latina, who go into it in position 12. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gubbio asked and Padova said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jasper Hartog is in the works
Gubbio have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuele Duro 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 Gubbio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alessandro Ahmetaj and Gubbio agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bologna have kept their man, and Gubbio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Domenico Lombardo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristiano Schiavone is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Giacomo Armani has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Valentino Di Stefano has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.