The Novara Gazette
Market21 Aug 2028
Santiago Lambertucci 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 Novara can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
No thanks: Matteo Bernardi rejects the move
Novara had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Lecce, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Roberto Ranieri frozen out at Novara
This is not rotation. Roberto Ranieri has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Novara is pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Novara
Omar Khailoti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Time is catching up with Eric Lanini
Everybody at Novara saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Novara
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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Novara rebuffed over Taha Zidouh
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Modena have kept their man, and Novara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A row about effort at Novara
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Lanini was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market21 Aug 2028
Silvio De Santis steps up from the Novara academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Silvio De Santis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mirko Rossetti joins the Novara first team
- Market Cesare D'Angelo steps up from the Novara academy
- Boardroom A promise the Novara board did not keep