The Bari Sentinel
Market24 Aug 2026
Davide Marfella hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bari can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mehdi Dorval 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 Bari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Bari
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Giuseppe Sibilli 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Bari promote Domenico Caputo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Domenico Caputo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Nicola Ventura joins the Bari first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicola Ventura 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: Adriano Baraldi joins the Bari first team
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Bari
- Squad A season on the outside for Dimitris Nikolaou
- Squad Mateus Mané is starting to look at home