The Alcione Milano Herald
Squad1 Jan 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Simone Palombi
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Alcione Milano lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Jan 2029
Wiktor Mamroł puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Alcione Milano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match30 Dec 2028
Nobody wants to play Alcione Milano right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tempers go at Alcione Milano
Tommaso Panelli 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Giorgio Galli 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.
Match30 Dec 2028
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Alcione Milano. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match30 Dec 2028
Alcione Milano get the job done against Pro Patria
A 1‑0 win over Pro Patria, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
Nothing got past Guillaume Renault
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Boardroom1 Jan 2029
Wages eat 98% of everything Alcione Milano earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Simone Palombi
- Market Alcione Milano buy the years ahead of Alexander Granqvist
- Squad No hiding place for Stefano Minelli