Angelo Baldi

Right Forward - Bologna
29 May 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Angelo Baldi

128 Edition

The Bologna Herald

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bologna turn down AS Roma for Riccardo Orsolini

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Angelo Baldi 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 Bologna can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Riccardo Orsolini 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 Bologna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Giuseppe Ciocci goes

Venezia paid $1.1M and Bologna took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Only the photograph left for Francesco Benassai

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Francesco Benassai will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bologna the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jhon Lucumí is carrying Bologna

12 goals and a season average of 7.40. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Udinese take the points off Bologna

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

No hiding place for Lewis Ferguson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lewis Ferguson, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Jhon Lucumí

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
95 Edition

The Bologna Herald

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Michel Aebischer: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bologna have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Riccardo Orsolini 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 Bologna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Angelo Baldi out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Angelo Baldi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

91 Edition

The Bologna Herald

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Federico Ravaglia keeps Bologna in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Jhon Lucumí

Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Riccardo Orsolini 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 Bologna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Emil Holm

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Bologna lose Angelo Baldi

46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch

Farès Bousnina wants to come home

“I did not go to Carpi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Bologna and fight for my place.” 11 appearances in 41 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

The one thing Jens Odgaard could not do

Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Giovanni Fabbian

Marked 4.37, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

Match

Bologna draw a blank against AC Milan

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. AC Milan defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief