The Monza Sentinel
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Valerio Fortunato is out at Monza
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Andrea Carboni damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Reggiana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Monza did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Mirko Canali takes charge at Monza
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market21 Aug 2028
Solomon Loubao hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Monza can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Monza
Matteo Pessina 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Giacomo Carobbio at Monza
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Giacomo Carobbio is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Monza
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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words at Monza training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentin Antov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Transfer targets Bologna tell Monza: Kevin Fustini is not for sale
- Market Armando Damico steps up from the Monza academy
- Market Cesare Grasso steps up from the Monza academy