The Spezia Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Diego Mascardi agrees terms with Zurich
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Spezia people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kelvin Yeboah arrives at Spezia in a $5.0M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Spezia have paid $5.0M for Kelvin Yeboah, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Market10 Aug 2026
Gioele Conte says no to Gubbio
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Gioele Conte had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Spezia rebuffed over Samuele Vitale
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ascoli have kept their man, and Spezia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Petko Hristov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Petko Hristov commits to Spezia for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Massimo Zilli 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 Spezia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Galo Capomaggio 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Giuseppe Di Serio
Still no offer on the table, and Giuseppe Di Serio’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kelvin Yeboah needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Spezia know which stage they are at.
In brief
- The dugout Petko Hristov knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Giuseppe Ciocci
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Oumar Camara Sinaba