The Bologna Herald
Squad17 Apr 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gabriel Dattilo
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bologna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Apr 2028
Nicola Bagnolini has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bologna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match15 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for Bologna
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Loan watch17 Apr 2028
The goals keep arriving from Francesco Castaldo’s exile
14 goals in 30 games at AlbinoLeffe — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Bologna updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match15 Apr 2028
Lazio take the points off Bologna
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Thijs Dallinga
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thijs Dallinga, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Riccardo Orsolini is carrying Bologna
7 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Sandro Fortunato faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sandro Fortunato after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Thijs Dallinga gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Thijs Dallinga is on it.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured for Gennaro Borrelli
- Looking ahead Bologna take on the side everybody is chasing
- Market Martin Vitík linked with a move away