The Sassuolo Herald
Squad22 May 2028
Armando Izzo damages knee ligaments — 101 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 101 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.
Loan watch22 May 2028
The goals keep arriving from Kristian Thorstvedt’s exile
23 goals in 35 games at Südtirol — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Sassuolo updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Sassuolo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Lino is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market22 May 2028
No place for Armand Laurienté in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Armand Laurienté has his answer from Sassuolo; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match20 May 2028
Dany Mota sends Sassuolo past Cesena
It finished 2‑1, and it was Dany Mota’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sassuolo.
Player ratings22 May 2028
A masterclass from Samuel Lino
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout22 May 2028
Stefano Turati 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.
Squad22 May 2028
Sassuolo lose Ivan Da Silva
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad22 May 2028
Raffaele Panariello in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sassuolo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The dugout Luigi Guidi: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Armand Laurienté knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Samuele Mulattieri