The Lumezzane Post
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ernesto Torregrossa damages knee ligaments — 62 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Oier Zarraga due for a Lumezzane medical
Everything agreed with Udinese, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Lumezzane
Marco Chiosa 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marco Moscati 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Door shut on Gerard Yepes
Lumezzane asked and Empoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market5 Jul 2027
Eyes on Francesco Bonardi again
The phone has started ringing about Francesco Bonardi again, and this time the name on the line is Giugliano. Lumezzane are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Lumezzane lose Francesco Simoncelli
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Lumezzane sign Cristian Samaritani, one for the future
Cristian Samaritani is 20, and Lumezzane have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Lumezzane academy
4 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
In brief
- The dugout Fabrizio Paghera is still being punished for one mistake
- The dugout Sasha Mancini asks for a word with the manager
- Market Lumezzane bring in an old head