The Empoli Post
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Empoli rebuffed over Tasos Douvikas
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Como have kept their man, and Empoli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Bogdan Popov goes
Fiorentina paid $2.9M and Empoli took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: Empoli walk away from Armand Rada
$1.5M was the most the club would pay and Vicenza were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Filippo Romagna is a medical away from Empoli
The deal with Sassuolo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Ivan Smolčić rejects the move
Empoli had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Como, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
5 academy graduates step up at Empoli
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Gerard Yepes 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 Empoli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Alfonso Grassi joins the Empoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alfonso Grassi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mirko Rinaldi joins the Empoli first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mirko Rinaldi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Alessandro Cipriani joins the Empoli first team
- Looking ahead Filippo Bandinelli faces his old club
- Squad Marius Adamonis still has not settled