The Parma Gazette
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
Parma put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market4 Jun 2029
Daniel Mikołajewski asks to leave Parma
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Jun 2029
Ollie Watkins wants more than Parma are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Agustín Giménez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Agustín Giménez commits to Parma for another 4 years.
Transfer targets4 Jun 2029
Door shut on Kenneth Taylor
Parma asked and AC Milan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Parma count the cost of losing Silvio Marini
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Parma
Ezequiel Silveira was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Gabriel Morisoli 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.
The dugout4 Jun 2029
Abdoulaye Ndiaye gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abdoulaye Ndiaye is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Abdoulaye Ndiaye without the man who signed him
- The dugout Filippo Rinaldi knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Fabio Miretti talk will not go away