The Spezia Gazette
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Andrea Cistana keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Spezia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Christian Comotto is the real thing at 18
A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Spezia know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Real improvement from David Vicari at Spezia
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Vicari is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Adam Masina 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Jérémy Oyono
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jérémy Oyono, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Spezia
David Vicari 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Laurs Skjellerup has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Spezia 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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Leonardo Campana linked with a move away
The name of Leonardo Campana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Spezia say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Laurs Skjellerup asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Loan watch Reggiana cannot leave Alessio Insignito out
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Ravenna
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Giuseppe Ciocci at Giana Erminio