The Perugia Chronicle
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luigi Canotto 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 Perugia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Agostino Rizzo
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Perugia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Perugia are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Perugia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joselito 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Perugia pick up Agostino Rizzo for nothing
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Agostino Rizzo arrives at Perugia with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tiziano Ditanto arrives on loan
Perugia have taken Tiziano Ditanto on loan from Cremonese — cover where cover was needed.
In brief
- Market Perugia put Noah Lewis up for sale
- Market Iván Esculino has been watched