The Cremonese Gazette
Squad3 Dec 2035
Romano Colletti damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
Cremonese spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom3 Dec 2035
Pressure builds in the Cremonese boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Player ratings3 Dec 2035
Jari Vandeputte, 39, rolls back the years — 8.22
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.22 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Karamoko Kaba: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cremonese have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market3 Dec 2035
Only the photograph left for Lorenzo Novati
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Novati will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cremonese the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Francesco Folino 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 Cremonese this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Dec 2035
Alfie Lynskey is carrying Cremonese
8 goals and a season average of 7.57. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 Dec 2035
Gregorio Morachioli among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Gregorio Morachioli on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Cremonese and Juve Stabia.
In brief
- Match Cremonese come up short against Juve Stabia
- Loan watch Diego Zúñiga wants to come home
- Player ratings Alfie Lynskey in the eights