Marco Guacci

Goalkeeper - Cosenza
30 Mar 2031
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Marked for Marco Guacci

208 Edition

The Cosenza Herald

22 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Jul 2030

Michele Emmausso damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.

Market22 Jul 2030

Marco Guacci puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Cosenza, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad22 Jul 2030

Tempers go at Cosenza

Lautaro Valenti was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad22 Jul 2030

Alberto Fontana is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets22 Jul 2030

Cosenza rebuffed over Patricio Flores

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Virtus Entella have kept their man, and Cosenza go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout22 Jul 2030

Sascha Britschgi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sascha Britschgi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout22 Jul 2030

Christos Kourfalidis 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 Christos Kourfalidis is on it.

Squad22 Jul 2030

Ruggero Monteleone 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.

The dugout22 Jul 2030

Sebastiano Sanna 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.

In brief

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The Cosenza Herald

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

Fee done, terms next for Samuele Spalluto

Cosenza and Campobasso have settled on $210.0K. 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 targets11 Jun 2029

Stefano Filigheddu will not be coming to Cosenza

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Lumezzane is saying, and nobody at Cosenza is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

The paperwork begins on Joel Pereira

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

Boardroom11 Jun 2029

Cosenza to lose Simone Martino for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Simone Martino has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Lautaro Valenti 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 Cosenza this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets11 Jun 2029

Door shut on Andrea Dini

Cosenza asked and Hellas Verona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom11 Jun 2029

Wages swallow 103% of the Cosenza income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Marco Guacci signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Guacci commits to Cosenza for another 3 years.

Squad11 Jun 2029

A row about effort at Cosenza

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

In brief