The Genoa Post
Squad21 Aug 2028
The knee: Gianluca Gaetano out for 42 days
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Genoa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Aug 2028
Lucas Testa asks to leave Genoa
“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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Genoa sign Christian Dalle Mura for $940.0K
The paperwork is done: Christian Dalle Mura joins from Benevento in a deal worth $940.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market21 Aug 2028
Agustín Álvarez has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Genoa can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Genoa
Odilon Kossounou 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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
No deal for Daniele Sommariva at that price
Genoa offered $220.0K; Udinese said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Genoa
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.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Lorenzo Altieri joins the Genoa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lorenzo Altieri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 49428. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
In brief
- Boardroom A promise the Genoa board did not keep
- Squad Genoa are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Leo Østigård knocks on the manager’s door