The Venezia Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lorenzo Montipò damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ridgeciano Haps puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Venezia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lion Lauberbach attracts admirers
The name of Lion Lauberbach has come up in conversations Venezia were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
4 academy graduates step up at Venezia
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Venezia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kike Pérez 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Venezia promote Pietro Greco from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pietro Greco 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Simone Bellini steps up from the Venezia academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simone Bellini 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Venezia
Matías Moreno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Venezia say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
In brief
- Squad Matías Moreno still has not settled
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Empoli
- The dugout The manager comes out for Toma Bašić