Denimir Velkov

Left Back - Carpi
11 Jun 2028
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The Carpi Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Previtali breaks a bone — 15 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Filippo Puletto asks to leave Carpi

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Jesse Saputo

Carpi and Bologna have settled on $390.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.6M for Giangiacomo Magnani

Carpi have gone to Palermo with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Hellas Verona tell Carpi: Mirko Castagnini is not for sale

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Carpi

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Davide Zagnoni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Home is on Juan Palma's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Carpi are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

A falling-out at Carpi

Alessandro Scacchetti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Leonardo Stanzani 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 Carpi, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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The Carpi Herald

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Tommaso Panelli hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Carpi can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Pianese watching Matteo Sorzi

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Carpi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Cristian Bunino

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Carpi have done the hard part with Torres, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Thomas Sandon

Carpi asked and Vicenza 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 targets

Carpi bid $520.0K for Thomas Battistella

The offer went to Juve Stabia this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Carpi bid $76.0K for Giulio Veliaj

The offer went to Forli this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

A row about effort at Carpi

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Davide Zagnoni was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Leonardo Stanzani

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leonardo Stanzani, and the manager let it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Carpi

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief