The Perugia Chronicle
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luigi Canotto 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 Perugia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gianmarco Tumminelli gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gianmarco Tumminelli has just signed for Perugia, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Perugia count the cost of losing Matteo Peruzzi
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Joãozinho
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Perugia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market17 Aug 2026
A long bet from Perugia on Gianmarco Tumminelli
He is 20, and nobody at Perugia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Perugia bring in an old head
Joãozinho is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Luigi Canotto linked with a move away
- Market Perugia put Davide Riccardi up for sale