The Genoa Post
Squad6 Mar 2028
Marco Sportiello keeps Genoa in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 Mar 2028
The cup run ends for Genoa
0‑3 against AC Milan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces6 Mar 2028
Genoa are taken apart by AC Milan — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Market6 Mar 2028
Mateo Pellegrino wants more than Genoa 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Hugo Cuenca has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Genoa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Sami Meheleb has agreed to leave Genoa for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Leo Østigård 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 Genoa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Genoa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yann Aurel Bisseck 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.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
A masterclass from Yann Aurel Bisseck
Marked 9.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Match Genoa get the job done against Napoli
- Player ratings Lorenzo Venturino runs at them all day
- Squad Aarón gets it from the manager