The Lazio Chronicle
Squad21 Aug 2028
The knee: Yahia Fofana out for 30 days
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lazio lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Aug 2028
Petar Ratkov agrees terms with Atalanta
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lazio people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Aug 2028
Spezia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lazio did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Lazio rebuffed over Albion Rrahmani
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fiorentina have kept their man, and Lazio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Danilho Doekhi pulls a muscle — 15 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at Lazio
Jesús Rodríguez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Lazio
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
Lazio promote Angelo De Simone from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Angelo De Simone 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Lazio promote Luca Barone from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luca Barone 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.
In brief
- Squad Amir Richardson falls out with a teammate over standards
- Boardroom A promise the Lazio board did not keep
- Loan watch Saná Fernandes counts the days