The Mantova Herald
Market9 Aug 2027
Rareş Ilie is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mantova is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Davide Bragantini
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market9 Aug 2027
Mantova get their man
The chase for Nicolás Luján ended with $480.0K changing hands and Sambenedettese out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Late improvement for Nicolò Radaelli
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Mantova
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ettore Gliozzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Mantova rebuffed over Kristjan Asllani
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Inter have kept their man, and Mantova go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Mantova
Filippo Pittarello and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Rareş Ilie gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Mantova try to borrow Marcos Curado
Ascoli have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Market Andrea Meroni linked with a move away
- Market Eros Ndreçka leaves for nothing
- The dugout Nicolás Luján knocks on the manager’s door