The AlbinoLeffe Gazette
Market21 Aug 2028
Michele Ambrosini sold, and an era ends
$5.5M from Hellas Verona for Michele Ambrosini. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Andrea Mandelli damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
AlbinoLeffe sell a favourite for $5.5M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Michele Ambrosini was one of the reasons people came, and $5.5M does not replace that by itself.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Mattia Angeloni at AlbinoLeffe
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mattia Angeloni is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Angelo Antonio Di Palma signs for Renate while still at AlbinoLeffe
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Angelo Antonio Di Palma has agreed terms with Renate for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A late step up for Alessandro Lombardi
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 5 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Gabriele Boloca 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 AlbinoLeffe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Aug 2028
As if he never left: Milo Da Rugna returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Milo Da Rugna is a AlbinoLeffe player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at AlbinoLeffe
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market AlbinoLeffe promote Valentino Caprioli from within
- Market AlbinoLeffe promote Danilo Basile from within
- Boardroom AlbinoLeffe board go back on their word